The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like..

We are living in enchanted time. With our spirits right..

I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable..

Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger..

Painters ought to be mute. Speech is the enemy of expression..

To sustain your belief through situations that completely undermine it is quite something..

When you stop inventing reality then you see things as they really are..

If we are true, if we can love, if we have vision, if we can have courage, we can, we should, we ought to, we will..

Ghetto-dwellers are the great fantasists. There was an extraordinary vibrancy there, an imaginative life. When you are that poor, all you've got left….

The law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time..

Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose its moorings or lose its orientations. even in silence we are living our stories.

If we could be pure dancers in spirit we would never be afraid to love, and we would love with strength and wisdom..

We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings..

When chaos is the god of an era, clamorous music is the deity's chief instrument..

Don't neglect the gold in your own back yard..

We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life alters our plans. And yet, at the end, from a rare hei….

Yes, the highest things are beyond words. That is probably why all art aspires to the condition of wordlessness. When literature works on you, it doe….

I'm fascinated by the mysterious element that runs through our lives. Everyone is looking out of the world through their emotion and history. Nobody ….

I'm conscious of a series of circles working its way through my life. And at this particular moment I have come round to the beginning of my writing ….

Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret..

An inner darkness is darker than an outer darkness..