Each time I think I've created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space.

My father was a schoolteacher, and so I had the advantage of both western educational instruction in the school, as well as what you might call the process of imbibing the traditional processes of education instruction around me.

I like my peace and quiet whenever I can grab it.

Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.

I grew up in an atmosphere where words were an integral part of culture.

But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it's amazing.

Given the scale of trauma caused by the genocide, Rwanda has indicated that however thin the hope of a community can be, a hero always emerges. Although no one can dare claim that it is now a perfect state, and that no more work is needed, Rwanda has risen from the ashes as a model or truth and reconciliation.

I grew up in an atmosphere where words were an integral part of culture.

I love beauty. But I like the beauty accidentally, not dished up, served up on a platter.

There is only one home to the life of a river-mussel; there is only one home to the life of a tortoise; there is only one shell to the soul of man: there is only one world to the spirit of our race. If that world leaves its course and smashes on boulders of the great void, whose world will give us shelter?

History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice.

One has a responsibility to clean up one's space and make it livable as far as one's own resources go. That includes not only material resources, but psychological resources: the commitment of time and a portion of your mind to something when you'd rather be doing something else.

And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.

I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I've never understood.

Politics, I believe, is a full-time occupation.

Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.

The Sudanese government has been playing games with the world, with the Africa Union, in particular, have been playing for time in order to conclude its mission of ethnic cleansing in the Sudan.

Books and all forms of writing have always been objects of terror to those who seek to suppress the truth.

Art is solace; art is vision, and when I pick up a literary work, I am a consumer of literature for its own sake.

But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms.

Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.