We feel a lot of pressure about looking silly or appearing weak, whatever that means, or being a failure. You have to keep in your head: what's the worst that can happen?

You want society to accept you; but you can’t even accept yourself.

I keep everything very simple. I like telling stories.

Big things have small beginnings.

Everyone's crazy anyway. And those who think they aren't, are the ones who are even crazier - because they're in denial.

What I find really interesting is to try and mix it up, to push myself and try different things. I don't want to stay in my comfort zone. I want to take risks and keep myself scared.

I’m aware of my weaknesses and THE BEAST WITHIN.

[As an actor] I have ideas, but things should always be fluid. You should always be ready to follow an instinct. Something might reveal itself on the day.

I love to go into a movie and have no idea what's going to happen in it.

Any good kitchen should be stocked up in oysters, shouldn't they?

Trying to identify and understand, as opposed to judging, is very important for me, in approaching characters.

There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally.

you have learned, and you claim that you know, and yet you live like an ignorant.

Your most precious asset is your right thinking!

While the majority of my childhood memories are beautiful, I also have experienced the challenges that Nigeria has faced since independence.

In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death – fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous, constant.

I knew what love was supposed to be: obsession with undertones of nausea.

My only real claim to anyone's attention lies in my writing

Prayer is the oxygen of the soul.

It turns out I had this huge geeky safety net out there that I didn’t know about this whole time, made up of people who have been reading my comic for nine years but never contacted me.