Always say no pun intended to draw attention to the intended pun.

I deeply respect American sentimentality, the way one respects a wounded hippo. You must keep an eye on it, for you know it is deadly.

Writing as writing. Writing as rioting. Writing as righting. On the best days, all three.

The White Savior Industrial Complex is not about justice. It is about having a big emotional experience that validates privilege.

The white savior supports brutal policies in the morning, founds charities in the afternoon, and receives awards in the evening.

To be alive, it seemed to me, as I stood there in all kinds of sorrow, was to be both original and reflection, and to be dead was to be split off, to be reflection alone.

Things don't go away just because you choose to forget them.

The energies of Lagos life- creative, malevolent, ambiguous- converge at the bus stops

I just realized that we're facing here is an empathy gap. And this was just another way to generate conversation about something that nobody wanted to look at.

Love perhaps includes the promise that when the mob comes for you I'll go against the mob.

The site was a palimpsest, as was all the city, written, erased, rewritten.

Live for everything, or die for nothing

Every mortal birth is a heaven-given reminder to prepare for the second birth.

I had seen Adelaide the dearest and the cheapest place to live in.

Our information lives will be better served when we are free to get to our information from wherever we are, with any device available.

I don't approve of political jokes; I have seen too many of them get elected.

The deep sea can be fathomed, but who knows the heart of a woman?

Happiness is like the penny candy of our youth: we got a lot more for our money back when we had no money.

As Australians, we see the law as inherently bad. We have a real inherent distaste for authority in our makeup.

There are two indices of genuine art: it is inimitable and it is ineffable.

What has religion to do with facts? Nothing.