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What A Writer Does Is To Try To Make Sense Of Life. I Think That's What Writing Is, I Think That's What Painting Is. It's Seeking That Thread Of Order And Logic In The Disorder, And The Incredible Waste And Marvelous Profligate Character Of Life. What All Artists Are Trying To Do Is To Make Sense Of Life.

In A Democracy - Even If It Is A So-called Democracy Like Our White-?litist One - The Greatest Veneration One Can Show The Rule Of Law Is To Keep A Watch On It, And To Reserve The Right To Judge Unjust Laws And The Subversion Of The Function Of The Law By The Power Of The State. That Vigilance Is The Most Important Proof Of Respect For The Law.

The Tension Between Standing Apart, And Being Fully Involved; That Is What Makes A Writer.

In A Country Like South Africa, Writers Have Nuisance Value, Because Those Of Us Who Have Become Known Overseas Have Certainly Helped To Inform People About What Life Is Like There.

Communists Are The Last Optimists.