one of the wonderful things, in spite of all the terrible things that happen in South Africa, is the way people continue to keep their dignity. They … - Nadine Gordimer

I’m beginning now even to see it in my own books which are written from many different points of view, very different personae, first person as a man, a child, a woman, a young person, an older person, there is the sense, looking back, that you are really writing one book all your life. Because there is this voyage of discovery of life.

At four in the afternoon the old moon bleeds radiance into the grey sky.

You know history better than I do, you've been teaching all your life. Without real opposition you get dictators down the line. Idi, Amin, Mugabe. No democracy without opposition.