Life is such a gentle, treasured thing. I learn about it every minute. I think about it so deeply. - Bessie Emery Head

“they cannot exist unless they can live in the village insuch a way that the changes that they bring about are necessary … in determining who they are

You could really say that my writing experience began in Botswana. Everything about the society was magical to me and the reason I began writing is that I wanted to communicate that fascination I felt for the ways of life of the people of this country. It is almost impossible for a writer to evoke a similar feeling of magic and wonder about South Africa. It's too despairing.

A basically timid and cowardly person dare not presume to speak for others. He can only speak for himself. [A Personal View of the Survival of the Unfittest,