I learned that life will go through changes - up and down and up again. It's what life does.

The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader.

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

What you see is what you make. What you see in a people is what you eventually create in them.

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

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.

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