I'm an Afro-realist. I take what comes, and I do my best to affect what is unacceptable in society.

Romance is the sweetening of the soulWith fragrance offered by the stricken heart.

For now, let us simply observe that the assault on human dignity is one of the prime goals of the visitation of fear, a prelude to the domination of the mind and the triumph of power

Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress truth.

For the fire consumes all but the arsonist.

I grew up in an atmosphere where words were an integral part of culture.

But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms.

Each time I think I've created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space.

Under a dictatorship, a nation ceases to exist. All that remains is a fiefdom, a planet of slaves regimented by aliens from outer space.

I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I've never understood.

And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.

Instead of the church in Africa to be a place for eradicating darkness by beaming out light, she has unfortunately become the den of robbers as Jesus put it.

Life demands more thinking than remembering.

We strain hardest for things which are almost but not quite within our reach.

Piano is very elegant. I also think it's a very truthful instrument.

It's the cliches that cause the trouble. A precise emotion seeks a precise expression.

Anything based on ancient texts is difficult for a modern reader to get their head around.

I got a huge knot in my stomach because if Antarctica could talk, it would be saying only one thing: you don't belong here. (277)

If you hate your lot but wouldn't trade it, it's not your lot you hate.

No one who cannot limit himself has ever been able to write.

Being optimistic is like a muscle that gets stronger with use. Makes it easier when the tough times arrive. You have to change the way you think in order to change the way you feel.