Trust her heart, Assefa, and believe in yourself. No matter the challenge, no matter the foe, be brave, be wise, be the undefeated Mngwa of lore.

My teeth ache, my gums hurt, and my cat is tearing me apart, wanting you in every way imaginable. Your body. Your magic. Your fire spirit. Your blood.

No one should feel hurt by you, you should make everyone happy and leave.

At the end of the day it’s not ‘what looks good’ that matters, it’s ‘what feels’ good.

I make movies. I'm not in politics.

I don't want to live in a world where I could say to my daughter, 'There used to be turtles that swam in the ocean.'

A still-born son os superior to a foolish son endowed with a long life. The first causes grief for but a moment while the latter like a blazing fire consumes his parents in grief for life.

My wife is the kind of girl who will not go anywhere without her mother, and her mother will go anywhere.

As idiotic as optimism can sometimes seem, it has a weird habit of paying off.

Hospitals, like airports and supermarkets, only pretend to be open nights and weekends.

A man like me troubles himself little about a million men.

That would have been a nice place, inside an idea, but it wasn't a place to live. It was necessary to live where the idea and the fact collided.