“I'm not a prophet; I can only use historical reality to come to a view of the future, and my view is that Africa will return to be...”

“I'm not a good father and they're not children any more; the eldest is in his fifties. My relationship with their mothers broke do...”

“My mother-in-law speaks not a word of English. I speak not a word of Tajiki. So I smile at her ingratiatingly and she fixes me wit...”

“The mistake the apartheid government made was they gave the black people nothing, so they had nothing to lose. But now a lot of th...”

“If I have to die, then it's best to do so before I see everything I love, the land, the animals, the people, all of it destroyed.”

“Patriotism is a myth conceived by those old rogues to draw us into the infernal game. Let them fight as they will, but we want no...”