Dusklands

"I am writing about a man who is trying to find his own story, to find his own place in the world. He is searching for the truth, for the meaning of his life, but he is also searching for something else, something that is beyond words, something that is beyond understanding."

"The past is always with us, even when we think we have escaped it. It lives in our memories, in our dreams, in the very air we breathe."

"The world is full of stories, stories that are waiting to be told. But who will tell them? Who will listen?"

"What is a man without a story? A man without a story is a man without a soul.""

"You can't live with your past, you can't live without it. That's the paradox of memory."

"The Boers are a strange people. They are afraid of the wilderness, yet they live in it. They are afraid of the black people, yet they need them. They are afraid of the future, yet they are always looking forward."

"guns save us from the fear that all life is within us"

"The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there."

"The only way to escape from your past is to become someone else. But who can you become? What other selves are there?"

"has been composed facing east into the rising sun and in a mood of poignant regret (poindre, to pierce) that I am rooted in the evening lands."

"The bushveld is full of stories, stories without end. You can't stop them. They come out of the trees, they come out of the rocks, they come out of the earth."

"I am not a hunter, I am a story-teller. It's not my job to kill, it's my job to tell stories."