I held you in the square And felt the evening Re-order itself around Your smile.

Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose its moorings or lose its orientations. even in silence we are living our stories

We are living in enchanted time. With our spirits right.

Stories are the secret reservoir of values: change the stories individuals and nations live by and tell themselves, and you change the individuals and nations.

A man must be able to hold his drink because drunkenness is sometimes necessary in this difficult life.

Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it.

I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to tell stories that would keep one another interested, and you weren't allowed to tell stories that everybody else knew. You had to dream up new ones.