I don't care about age very much.

I find Nigeria very frustrating. I am not alone in this. There are many Nigerians abroad. As you know, the brain drain is just incredible. And when we talk to one another and there is a certain sense of frustration and but I struggle not to let the frustration degenerate into dispair.

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.

Wisdom is like a goatskin bag; every man carries his own.

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.

Age was respected among his people, but achievement was revered. As the elders said, if a child washed his hands he could eat with kings.

There is that great proverb — that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.