What I quickly discovered is that our so-called new South Africa has as much material for a story-teller as the old one. The landscape hasn't really ….

I can't think of a single one of my plays that does not represent a coincidence between an external and an internal event. Something outside of me, o….

To know nothing about yourself is to be constantly in danger of nothingness, those voids of non-being over which a man walks the tightrope of his lif….

If the nature of human experience changes with the color of a man's skin, then the racists have been right all along..

My life had been defined by the apartheid years. Now we were going into an era of democracy... and I believed that I didn't have really a function as….

You can't answer violence with counter violence ... The answer is love. The best sabotage is love..

For you in the West to hear the phrase 'All men are created equal' is to draw a yawn. For us, it's a miracle. We're starting out at rock bottom, man.….

All of my life had been spent in the shadow of apartheid. And when South Africa went through its extraordinary change in 1994, it was like having spe….

Anybody who thinks there's nothing wrong with this world needs to have his head examined. Just when things are going all right, without fail someone ….

How thin and insecure is that little beach of white sand we call consciousness. I've always known that in my writing it is the dark troubled sea of w….

Every boy needs a role model that he can be proud of and talk about to the other kids in the playground..

For most of my writing life, I've refused to allow myself to believe that writing was a significant form of action. I always felt very uneasy about t….

I think all of my writing life led up to the writing of 'The Train Driver' because it deals with my own inherited blindness and guilt and all of what….

My essential identity is that of a writer..

In South Africa, success never presented the problems that it presents in New York. In New York, if you happen to be the flavor of the month, a lot o….

The things that converge in the writing of a play come from a complex of motives, a genesis shrouded in a certain kind of mystery..

Creativity is very selfish. Scandalously so, in fact..

You cant legislate into existence an act of forgiveness and a true confession; those are mysteries of the human heart, and they occur between one ind….

From early on there were two things that filled my life - music and storytelling, both of them provoked by my father. He was a jazz pianist and also ….

I'm always in disguise in one form or another in my plays..

Night-time is when I brainstorm; last thing, when the family's asleep and I'm alone, I think about the next day's writing and plan a strategy for my ….