"How thin and insecure is that little beach of white sand we call consciousness. I've always known th..." — Athol Fugard

The reason I'm in San Diego is not because I want distance from South Africa but because I want proximity to the people I love. But I don't envy growing up in America. As ugly as aspects of it were, my biggest blessing was to be born a South African.

There are times in my 30 years in the theater that I have come perilously close to losing faith in the one form of action I have in this life.

For you in the West to hear the phrase 'All men are created equal' is to draw a yawn. For us, it's a miracle. We're starting out at rock bottom, man. But South Africa does have soul.

Theater will never, and never has, gotten audiences like film. But theater goes to work on society in a different and more subversive way.