The world needs people who are more comfortable standing still. We keep the earth on it axis when everybody else is bouncing around.

And perhaps the best answer is not to tolerate differences, not even to accept them. But to celebrate them. Maybe then those who are different would feel more loved, and less, well, tolerated.

I don't think about relatability (when writing), I think about the heart of the character.

Do you know how you get the urge to clean your room, and it’s no big deal? But when your mom tells you that you have to clean your room, you don't want to? That's me, anyway.

Straight people have it so much easier. They don’t understand. They can’t. There’s no such thing as openly straight.

You can be anything you want, but when you go against who you are inside, it doesn't feel good.

Guilt is about something you do. Shame is about who you are.

More and more these days, I'm realizing that I might be crazy, but I'm loved too. I don't think I ever really knew that before, but I do now.

What do you call it when a straight person comes out? ... A conversation

Our perception could either be our path to nirvana or an invisible cage that bottles us up.

You have to give 110% all the time. 100% isn't good enough anymore.

Someone created the box score, and he should be shot.

Language comes into being, like consciousness, from the basic need, from the scantiest intercourse with other human.

Anyone who knows the marketing world knows that ideas come and go, and people latch onto things and think of them as a kind of solution.

I take losses very personal and very serious.

My joy knows no bounds... I will devote all my energy and all the powers available to me to the service of Nigeria and humanity.

If there is anything unique about my writing it is the way that I combine poetry and prose, not just on the level of having a poem here, prose there, but that it really is a true amalgam.

The hardest thing to learn in the game of love is when to fold a winning hand.

Adventure is the invitation to common people to become uncommon.