I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the country because of difference in religion. These are things we should put behind us.

They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit.

One would think he never sucked at his mother’s breast.

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

Storytellers are a threat. They threaten all champions of control, they frighten usurpers of the right-to-freedom of the human spirit -- in state, in church or mosque, in party congress, in the university or wherever.

A toad does not run in the daytime for nothing

You might as well say that the woman lies on top of the man when they are making the babies.