When the moon is shining the cripple becomes hungry for a walk

When a new saying gets to the land of empty men, they lose their heads over it.

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

Nigeria is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be.

There is something about important stories that is not just the message, but also the way that message is conveyed, the arrangement of the words, the felicity of the language. So it's really a balance between your commitment, whether it's political or economic or whatever, and your craft as an artist.

Charity . . . is the opium of the privileged.

Mosquito [...] had asked Ear to marry him, whereupon Ear fell on the floor in uncontrollable laughter. "How much longer do you think you will live?" she asked. "You are already a skeleton." Mosquito went away humiliated, and any time he passed her way he told Ear that he was still alive.