The lizard that jumped from a high Iroko tree to the ground said he would praise himself if no-one else did.

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.

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

People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their own experience.

Art should be on the side of humanity.

I don't like to see mistakes on the typewriter. I like a perfect script. On the typewriter I will sometimes leave a phrase that is not right, not what I want, simply because to change it would be a bit messy.

The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership.