One of the reasons there are so many terms for conditions of ice is that the mariners observing it were often trapped in it, and had nothing to do except look at it.

Someone responding to intuition, to chance and fortune, often can't explain himself well.

Somewhere Chesterton writes--I think it is Chesterton--that you cannot reason a man from a position that reason didn’t deliver him to.

Peace is more of an internal settlement in Nigeria rather than what is visible on the external hardship we face in the country.

Boys will be boys.

I do know that some Buddhists are able to attain peace of mind.

It’s important to be yourself.

Something in the world forces us to think. This something is an object not of recognition but of a fundamental encounter.

rush of pine scent (once upon a time), the unlicensed conviction there ought to be another way of saying this.

You become angry because something or someone has done something against your expectations.

When my books came out, they started selling but they started selling at a relatively consistent but low pace. And they started to pick up the pace.

Yes and, you know, I can't use the nice words anymore because I used to chicken out by using them. I used to call myself plus size, used to call myself chubby. I used to call myself overweight.

It is in the intellectual and emotional response, the conscious and subconscious associations of the artist, that the potential power of painting lies.