We compound our suffering by victimizing each other..

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 ….

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 ….

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

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….

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

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….

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.….

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 ….

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….

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….

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

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….

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 ….

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..

A very close friend of mine keeps reminding me that since about the age of 50, I've been saying, 'I'm finished. I haven't got another one in me.' But….

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..

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….