I Became Very Interested In The Islamic

One Must Always Try To See The Truth Of A Situation - It Makes Things Universal.

I Don't Feel I Can Speak With Authority For Many Other People.

People Come And Go All The Time; The World Has Always Been In Movement.

Whenever I Have Had To Write Fiction, I've Always Had To Invent A Character Who Roughly Has My Background.

I Often Wonder What Would Have Happened To Me If I Hadn't Made That Decision. I Suppose I Would Have Sunk. I Suppose I Would Have Found Some Kind Of Hole And Tried To Hide Or Pass. After All, We Make Ourselves According To The Ideas We Have Of Our Possibilities. I Would Have Hidden In My Hole And Been Crippled By My Sentimentality, Doing What I Was Doing, And Doing It Well, But Always Looking For The Wailing Wall. And I Would Never Have Seen The World As The Rich Place That It Is. You Wouldn't Have Seen Me Here In Africa, Doing What I Do.