“This is the way of the world I thought in my innocence, round and around the layers of peel until the taste becomes certain.”

I wanted to be born at the farthest limit of the world. I’ll explore it, I said to myself, biting big chunks from it. And when I want, I’ll go straight to the core.

We will not be led like sheep to the slaughter.

The Welfare State, South Africa – and it becomes impossible to seriously confront any of them without understanding their historical background.

Since I’ve become a central banker, I’ve learned to mumble with great incoherence.

Besides the mistakes that are pointed out, I love the way readers become involved with the characters.

At this level, only images connect. And here, story becomes symbol; symbol is myth. And myth is truth.

I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities.

A girl becomes a wife with her eyes wide open. She knows that those sweetest words.

But the live band is now becoming ancient history in Thailand, Cambodia, and Burma.

Spending a weekend with Hitler would have been boring in the extreme, although you would have had a greater certainty in coming back alive.