We have not yet arrived, but every point at which we stop requires a re-definition of our destination.

An inner darkness is darker than an outer darkness.

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

Creativity is the art of the impossible

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

Literature doesn't have a country. Shakespeare is an African writer. His Falstaff, for example, is very African in his appetite for life, his largeness of spirit. The characters of Turgenev are ghetto dwellers. Dickens characters are Nigerians.

Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.