How clumsily we love this world:looking into that vast darkness, waiting for the telescopeto send down unseen colors of light.

Coming to terms with the fact that my marriage was a failure was devastating and very difficult. I blamed myself for a lot of things. It took me a very long time to get over it.

And then I got into sports and gave my guitar to my brother Jeff who was just a little kid at that time.

I like to be called a Nigerian rather than somebody from the Third World or the developing or whatever.

A living gale is better than a dead calm.

Arnold Schwarzenegger looks like a brown condom full of walnuts.

I do ride contend against the advantages of distrust. In the world we live in, it is but too necessary. Some of old called it the very sinews of discretion.

There has never been a truly selfless rebel, just hypocrites—conscious hypocrites or unconscious hypocrites, it’s all the same.

She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.

I'm intrigued by fanatics - people who are seduced by the promise, or the illusion, of the absolute.

Strip is the power. I'm ready to strip... I think everyone is. In that I'm saying I think everyone is ready to take off masks and pretentious costumes that don't represent who they truly are.