There is this sense of time when you're traveling, that the time is not how you know it, but how a country knows it.

People pretend things didn't happen. Or so what, they happened, it's okay. Well, it's never okay. It's always ruined.

When it comes to books...They're like lifelong friends to me; I need to know they're there, even if I don't check in with them on a regular basis.

You panic and you rage, then this calm settles over you, and you remake yourself.

A person who always fights back with an enemy is not strong

The organisation of your life begins the moment you start out your vision.

I need fiction like you need to eat or exercise.

A work of morality, politics, criticism will be more elegant, other things being equal, if it is shaped by the hand of geometry.

When politics and religion are intermingled, a people is suffused with a sense of invulnerability, and gathering speed in their forward charge, they fail to see the cliff ahead of them

Africa has been troubled for a long time - well, the world has been troubled ever since I was born.

I would say that by virtue of your not acting parental up to this point, you've relinquished your ability to wield any power now. Sam and I are together. It's not an option.

You and I are bound. We will be each other’s salvation, or each other’s doom.

Beauty is whatever anyone thinks is beautiful.

A handful of letters doesn't always make a word, love.