If we could be pure dancers in spirit we would never be afraid to love, and we would love with strength and wisdom.

I was going to be a scientist.

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

The worst realities of our age are manufactured realities. It is therefore our task, as creative participants in the universe, to re dream our world. The fact of possessing imagination means that everything can be re dreamed. Each reality can have it

A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick. Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose it’s moorings or orientation... Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart larger.

Creativity is the art of the impossible

a dream can be the highest point of a life