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 giving up acting. . . . I'm 66 and there are a number of celebrations I've got to get down on paper, and acting doesn't allow me to do that. It w….

I've always sensed for myself an obligation to bear witness to my time..

Love is the only energy I’ve ever used as a writer. I’ve never written out of anger, although anger has informed love..

We compound our suffering by victimizing each other..

I think the aloe is one of South Africa's most powerful, beautiful and celebratory symbols. It survives out there in the wild when everything else is….

Without white South Africa realizing what it had done - and on the basis of that realization having the courage to ask for forgiveness - there can re….

Life is just a plain bloody mess, that's all. And people are fools..

There is a desperate tendency to try to legislate artists, to try to lay down rules for their obligations to society. Just leave artists alone. If yo….

Theater will never, and never has, gotten audiences like film. But theater goes to work on society in a different and more subversive way..

As fascinated as I was by words on paper, it was matched by my fascination with words in people's mouths. The spoken word. And that is the world of t….