When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.

We know the potentiality of Nigeria and the talent and the resources and to see it having no effect on the lives of the people, on the infrastructure, the roads, the hospitals, the schools, seeing no effect of these talents, these recourses is very frustrating. But it is the result of the damage that was done to the country, especially during the various military regimes.

A boy sent by his father to steal does not go stealthily but breaks the door with his feet.

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.

There must be areas in which a particular character does not represent you.

If you don't like someone's story, write your own.

Whenever you see a toad jumping in broad daylight, then know that something is after its life.