"The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is."

"A desert is a place without expectation."

"The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it."

"Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship."

"Rebirth. I mean by this simply what happens when the child begins to realise the fact that the black does not enter t…"

"Mumbling obeisance to abhorrence of apartheid is like those lapsed believers who cross themselves when entering a chu…"

"Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life."

"Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity."

"Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Cen…"

"The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fa…"