When a leader encourages the culture of impunity, the society is lost and it makes the work harder for the rest of us.

Given the scale of trauma caused by the genocide, Rwanda has indicated that however thin the hope of a community can be, a hero always emerges. Although no one can dare claim that it is now a perfect state, and that no more work is needed, Rwanda has risen from the ashes as a model or truth and reconciliation.

As a global citizen, I sometimes feel like denying my identity.

But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it's amazing.

Even when I'm writing plays I enjoy having company and mentally I think of that company as the company I'm writing for.

Arts and the Sciences are a natural symbiosis. They stem from the same human existential impulse - exploration. Exploration of what lies beneath the surface, and re-confuguration of elements of what we call reality.

We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where.