"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 past is always with us, even when we think we have escaped it. It lives in our memories, in our dreams, in the ve…"

"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."

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

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

"The Boers are a strange people. They are afraid of the wilderness, yet they live in it. They are afraid of the black …"

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

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