It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.

There's a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories that I made up - or didn't - and Jamaican stories.

Once, I was a poet, and, like all poets, I spent too long in the Kingdom of Dreams.

It is astonishing just how much of what we are can be tied to the beds we wake up in in the morning, and it is astonishing how fragile that can be.

People take on the shapes of the songs and the stories that surround them, especially if they don't have their own song.

Have been unavoidably detained by the world. Expect us when you see us.

Truly, life is wasted on the living, Nobody Owens. For one of us is too foolish to live, and it is not I.