What you must accept is that your life is not going to be the same while you are writing.

Unless I'm writing in the Igbo language, I use a language developed elsewhere, which is English. That affects the way I write. It even affects to some extent the stories I write.

Colonial rule means that power, initiative is taken away from you by somebody else who makes your decisions. If that goes on long enough, beyond one generation, then the habit of self-rule is forgotten. People are no longer able to realize what it means. To be dependant for a hundred years! And suddenly when this thing ends there is nobody who actually knows how to set about running the country.

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

Children are very fair minded, they really are.

Women and music should not be dated.

Anybody who wants to rule a group will find that if this group is quarreling among themselves they leave you alone.