The way I’d put it, ” said Makin, “is that Rike can’t make an omelet without wading thigh deep in the blood of chickens and wearing their entrails as a necklace.

We die a little every day and by degrees we’re reborn into different men, older men in the same clothes, with the same scars.

There is something brittle in me that will break before it bends. Perhaps if the [the enemy] had brought a smaller army I might have had the sense to run. But he overdid it.

There is no sound more annoying than the chatter of a child, and none more sad than the silence they leave when they are gone.

I want her beyond reason. I need to own, consume, worship, devour. What I've made of her in my mind cannot live in flesh.

Sometimes I wished I could cut away old memories and let the wind take them. If a sharp knife could pare away the weakness of those days, I would slice until nothing but the hard lessons remained.

Perhaps I just wanted to know what it was that I wanted. Maybe that is all that growing up means.

In darkness I follow the light and find my way to the beginning again, and again, and again.

Relax. Nothing is under control.

It is because they have no Oyarsa,' said one of the pupils. It is because everyone of them wants to be a little Oyarsa himself,' said Augray.

I never competed against athletes. I competed against perfection.

A marvelous thing it would be to stand with confidence, unafraid, unashamed, and unembarrassed in the presence of God.

I hate the word 'cheap'. People are cheap. Clothing is either expensive or inexpensive.

Where better than the church for people like me, George Jones and Johnny Cash to go to get ourselves in shape enough to sing a gospel song?

Drinking Garri doesnt mean you're poor, but allowing the garri to swell-up before drinking is Poverty

Fear is concealed in smiles and flashing teeth. 'Please say you still love me,' the kings and queens are really saying. And, when they fare badly, they return to their palaces and sleep fitfully.

Life is too short to do mediocre work and it is definitely too short to build shitty things.