"I write furiously, admonishing myself when I seem about to fall into the old habit of editing sentences as they appea…"

"At the start of a new fiction project, there is always a piece written quickly, assuredly, with little hesitation, an…"

"In a profound sense every man has two halves to his being: he is not one person so much as two persons trying to act …"

"We suffer from a hubris of the mind. We have abolished superstition of the heart only to install a superstition of th…"

"Men are never alone because that which, acknowledged or unacknowledged, dreams through them is always by their side."

"It is the not-yet in the now, The taste of fruit that does not-yet exist Hanging the blossom on the bough."

"Life is its own journey, presupposes its own change and movement, and one tries to arrest them at one's eternal peril."

"There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere…"

"Africa has always walked in my mind proudly upright, an African giant among the other continents, toes well dug into …"

"Of all man's inborn dispositions there is none more heroic than the love in him. Everything else accepts defeat and d…"