The very function of creativity, of the elaboration of the human condition only enlarges the human spirit and, I mean, as a writer I don't want to read political literature all the time. It would be terribly boring and, you know, abrasive, but just reading the insights, you know, partaking of the insights of a writer into phenomena, into society, into human relationships, both on a micro level and on a macro level, is already a function.

I have no money to give to you but I have ideas and organizational capacity.

Under a dictatorship, a nation ceases to exist. All that remains is a fiefdom, a planet of slaves regimented by aliens from outer-space.

Mythology can be used, and has been used, even to re-state, you know, the very urgent problems of the world.

My mind immediately shot to South Africa the moment I sat down to think what I was going to write, what I was going to say. There was no other choice.

One thing I can tell you is this, that I am not a methodical writer.

It is not fair to those who fight corruption that they have to fight the aggressiveness, the impunity of the corrupt.