The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as we can remember. So it's a matter of settling down, lowering the rhetoric, the level of hostility in the rhetoric is too high.

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

I am not an early-morning person; I don't like to get out of bed, and so I don't begin writing at five A.M., though some people, I hear, do. I write once my day has started. And I can work late into the night, also.

I don't praise my people. I am their greatest critic.

I prefer to go on trying all kinds of things, not to be told, This is the way it is done.

The man that brings ant-infested faggots into his hut should not grumble when lizards begin to pay him a visit.

The rural areas have been deprived by the cities in the past. Development resources and energy should be directed where the people live.