You ride astride the imaginary in order to hunt down the real.

- Breyten Breytenbach

Americans have mastered the art of living with the unacceptable.

- Breyten Breytenbach

The world, our world, has existed since night of time, yet every day we must recreate it. If we did not walk upon the earth, it would not exist.

- Breyten Breytenbach

Even ivory towers need central heating.

- Breyten Breytenbach

In dancing with the enemy one follows his steps even if counting under one's breath.

- Breyten Breytenbach

I came, I saw, I was confused.

- Breyten Breytenbach

Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I have in mi…

- Breyten Breytenbach

I think it's an area that one writes from that is curious because it is not a clearly defined partisan one.

- Breyten Breytenbach

Leaving traces of ourselves, as in creative productivity, could then be seen as part of the definition of consciousness for us as well. We know that …

- Breyten Breytenbach