It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That's where the mischief starts. That's where everything starts unravelling.

All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.

I grew up in a small place and left it when I was quite young and entered the bigger world.

It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That's where the mischief starts. That's where everything starts unravelling.

My life is short. I can't listen to banality.

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

After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.