Is it not the worst pain to know there is a cure for your child's illness and then not be able to obtain it? Oh it must be the one of the worst types of pain in the world.

Though I knew I shouldn’t have cared, the words still hurt like pinches, and pinches can be very painful when done in the same place many times in a row.

Science fiction is the only genre that enables African writers to envision a future from our African perspective.

We cried and sobbed and wept and bled tears. But when we were finished, all we could do was continue living.

You are not crazy. You are just ready to change.

Silence is the best answer to a fool.

Use your powers for good instead of evil

I slammed the door in the child's face, a horrific scream trapped in my throat.

Funny how all things people don’t understand seem to be ‘cursed’.

All through the night, she battled herself. Or battled to know herself. She fell apart and then put herself back together and then she fell apart again and put herself back together, over and over.

Flawed, imperfect creatures! That's what we both are, oga! That's what we ALL are!

The futility of action does not absolve one from the failure to act. -

when the life gives you lemon, simply sell them and buy something sweet like chocolate

I refuse to be linguistically constrained by dictionary writers.

I did NOT have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.

Hold on with a bulldog grip and chew and choke as much as possible.

Producing suits me because I have a business mind and a business sensibility. I was a street hustler. I did whatever it took. I sold whatever I could sell. I'm a good organiser.

The flu is very unpredictable when it begins and in how it takes off.

I usually try to check quotes with people just to make sure things work out.

Nudge: "I look like prep school Barbie. (looks at Max) Actually, you look like prep school Barbie. I'm just Barbie's friend.

My first real breakthrough collided with the last months of Callaghan's Labour government, which had every intention of enjoying my success as much as I did.