When a man is at peace with his gods and ancestors, his harvest will be good or bad according to the strength of his arm.

When a mad man walks naked, it is his kinsmen who feel shame, not himself.

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

Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it's far removed from your situation.

Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We have to begin to learn to rule ourselves again.

There is no story that is not true, [...] The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others.

I am not an early-morning person; I don't like to get out of bed, and so I don't begin writing at five A.M., though some people, I hear, do. I write once my day has started. And I can work late into the night, also.