This is a story of a period between two World Wars - an interim in which Insanity cut loose. Liberty took a nose dive, and Humanity was kicked around somewhat.

You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

Life is a beautiful, magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.

My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain.

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!

We think too much and feel too little.

More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness.

Life laughs at you when you are unhappy; Life smiles at you when you are happy; But life salutes you when you make other happy.

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.

In these times, a great leader must be extremely brave. Their leadership must be steered only by their conscience, not a bribe.

The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.

Let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late.

Unless I'm writing in the Igbo language, I use a language developed elsewhere, which is English. That affects the way I write. It even affects to some extent the stories I write.

I always knew that I wanted to be an artist.

In the spiritual journey, you cannot be a wine taster, you have to become a drunk.

Teach a man to reason and he will think for a lifetime.

Myrnin:I could murder a cheeseburger right now Oliver:focus ya fool

When I was young, it wasn't about the money, it wasn't about the fame and fortune, it was about playing football.

I think ultimately that's why the audience will tune in longterm, for the characters and the relationships.