We never actively remember death, ' Odenigbo said. The reason we live as we do is because we do not remember that we will die. We will all die.

Is love this misguided need to have you beside me most of the time? Is love this safety I feel in our silences? Is it this belonging, this completeness?

She wanted to ask him why they were all strangers who shared the same last name.

Greatness depends on where you are coming from.

And it's wrong of you to think that love leaves room for nothing else. It's possible to love something and still condescend to it.

The truth has become an insult.

You must never behave as if your life belongs to a man. Do you hear me?” Aunty Ifeka said. “Your life belongs to you and you alone.

Don’t see it as forgiving him. See it as allowing yourself to be happy. What will you do with the misery you have chosen? Will you eat misery?

If the sun refuses to rise we will make it rise

She felt a sense that things were in order, the way they were meant to be, and that even if they tumbled down once in a while, in the end they would come back together again.

When you say "I" and "my" too much, you lose the capacity to understand the "we" and "our".

Art is long, and Time is fleeting.

When you don't have your work clearly defined, there can never be any finish point.

But, if there's any aspect of my career that needs attention, it's writing.

It's a tough world out there and all the guys are fighting hard and the competition is really tough.

Honey is hydrating and antiseptic. It really clears your skin, and its moisturizing. You can use it every day if you want. Its so gentle.

If I get an idea I put it on tape and somebody else writes it out.

While I'm working on a book, I rarely read anything more than The New York Times. Which may have the long-term effect of flattening my style.

I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business.

Long-term travel doesn't require a massive bundle of cash; it requires only that we walk through the world in a more deliberate way.