Looking at faces of people, one gets the feeling there's a lot of work to be done.

I've done a lot of guerrilla theater in my time.

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

Colonialism bred an innate arrogance, but when you undertake that sort of imperial adventure, that arrogance gives way to a feeling of accommodativeness. You take pride in your openness.

The writer is the visionary of his people... He anticipates, he warns.

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