Telling Times: writing and living

"Rebirth. I mean by this simply what happens when the child begins to realise the fact that the black does not enter through the white’s front door is not in the same category as the fact that the dead will never come back."

"There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice."

"Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship."

"Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship."

"The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it."

"Mumbling obeisance to abhorrence of apartheid is like those lapsed believers who cross themselves when entering a church."