In the story of the prince and the frog, there’s always a frog. This story ... it has no frog.

First time my master’s in English literature ever proved useful.

What if the drive to survive was a form of faith, a form of prayer?

But Marchent, most journalists can’t be trusted. You do know that, don’t you?

You’re a mystery the way a sacrament is a mystery.

Writers had a way of redeeming everything that ever happens to them.

Is there any one of us who doesn’t want to strike back at all the evil in this world?

The horror was this: the others.

Who could trust language?

Prayer is man's greatest power!

Life is short ... so why waste it doing something dumb?

Oral storytelling goes back so long ago, and those stories that were told orally were always layered and changed with time.

I have one talent, and that's figuring out what people want about two minutes before they know it themselves.

There are two things that have always haunted me: the brutality of the European traders and the stories I've heard about Africans selling other Africans into slavery.

If you must let someone down, be sure it isn’t the friend who helped you up when you were down.

I understand regicide as a means of obtaining vengeance for the ruin of our lives, but regicide as a means of obtaining political freedom I could never understand.

Dont worry, Roza, I'm not afraid. I'll take whatever heat they give me over being with you. It's worth it.

Poor Martin. Geek or no, committing his soul to eternal damnation was a helluva price to pay for six minutes.

Sometimes you get a flash of what you look like to other people.