The impatient idealist says: 'Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.' But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace.

I have found that I work best when I am at home in Nigeria. But one learns to work in other places.

I don't care about age very much.

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.

A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.

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.