I believe the future is only the past again entered through another gate.

There are two sorts of affection - the love of a woman you respect, and the love for the woman you love.

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.

Where there's tea, there's hope.

There will be some trouble about 'biography' because I have never troubled myself to supply particulars of my early life to any writer.

While there is tea, there is hope.

From forty to fifty a man is at heart either a stoic or a satyr.

A financer is a pawnbroker with an imagination.

I love fruit, when it is expensive.

While there is tea, there is hope.")

[A] practitioner of any spiritual path must have complete confidence that his adopted path is, for him, superior to all others. (57)

I sang a lot growing up; I always loved music.

I live half the year in Nigeria, the other half in the U.S. But home is Nigeria - it always will be. I consider myself a Nigerian who is comfortable in the world. I look at it through Nigerian eyes.

But let us not forget that cities are like human beings. They are born, they go through childhood and adolescence, they grow old, and eventually they die

I don't have a great eye for detail. I leave blanks in all of my stories. I leave out all detail, which leaves the reader to fill in something better.

It is not a thing that you can imagine. It only is. After that, there can be no imagining.

Hope may or may not be a Thing with Feathers. But it’s definitely a Thing with Claws.

Self-professed conservatives comprise about 40% to 45% of the electorate.

Diffidence is a sort of false modesty.