“The world is full of abandoned meanings. In the commonplace I find unexpected themes and intensities.”
“If Caribbean writers have one single unifying theme, it is a strong sense of place, and of home. There is also - always, beneath the humour, which is a West Indian characteristic - a sadness: an awareness of a past that can never really be forgotten, or forgiven.”
“If I'm out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog.”
“May I propose a Herzog dictum? those who read own the world, and those who watch television lose it. ”
“I pretended not to understand. One of life's hardest jobs, to make a quick understanding slow. I think I succeeded, thought Herzog.”