I lived in a brilliantly lit haze, shifting and flickering according to my changing desires. Of course, that is only a description of being young.

We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.

A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.

Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

Every child has the capacity to be everything.

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.

There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children.

The curves of your lips rewrite history.

It was so quiet, a reservation kind of quiet, where you can hear somebody drinking whiskey on the rocks three miles away.

After all, hadn't she been the one to pursue him? And Madame Dupuy had done it with a vigor that most women would have been too ashamed to display.

People will always be tempted to wipe their feet on anything with ‘welcome’ written on it.

I was born in Lagos, Nigeria, and I moved to Anderson, Indiana, in 2003 to go to school. I finished high school in America, then I went to college.

Bleeding isn't optional for most of us.

CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.

I don't count my situps. I only start counting once it starts hurting.

The stories we hear in our childhood are the ones we remember all our lives.

My work is drawn to the political but avoids an agenda. There is no inherent critique or support.