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.

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

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.

a dream can be the highest point of a life

I'm fascinated by the mysterious element that runs through our lives. Everyone is looking out of the world through their emotion and history. Nobody has an absolute reality.

Don't read what everyone else is reading. Check them out later, cautiously.

Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.