Africans need to be kicked, that's the only thing they understand.

The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.

The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next.

Look, boys, it ever strike you that the world not real at all? It ever strike you that we have the only mind in the world and you just thinking up everything else? Like me here, having the only mind in the world, and thinking up you people here, thinking up the war and all the houses and the ships and them in the harbour. That ever cross your mind?

I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.

The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.

His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.