Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

I wouldn't have wanted anyone to teach me how to write. That's my own taste. I prefer to stumble on it.

When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.

The ordinary Nigerians have lived as neighbors down the millennia. I was talking about the British who came and merged a whole number of mini states and big states into one unit. But those people were always there, and they always managed to live side by side with their neighbours. So they were not owned or run by one kingdom. It was not practically impossible for these people when they have different languages and religions to be neighbors. So it is that habit of neighbourliness which is destroyed and put under great strain again and again when you have things like massacres.

There is no story that is not true.

Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

What a man does not know is greater than he.