When we hear a house has fallen do we ask if the ceiling fell with it?

I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the country because of difference in religion. These are things we should put behind us.

When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.

A man who lived on the banks of the Niger should not wash his hands with spittle.

Charity . . . is the opium of the privileged.

Actually, I identify with all my characters, good and bad. I have to do that in order to make them genuine. I have to understand them even if I don't approve of them. Not completely - it's impossible; complete identification is, in fact, not desirable.

The language of young men is pull down and destroy; but an old man speaks of conciliation.