The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.

This earth that we live on is full of stories in the same way that, for a fish, the ocean is full of ocean. Some people say when we are born we're born into stories. I say we're also born from stories.

Don't neglect the gold in your own back yard.

The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like.

The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.

Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.

It is not important for me as a writer that you leave a piece of writing of mine with either an agreement or even a resonance with what I have said. What is important is that you leave with the resonance of what you have felt and what you thought in reaction to that.