Average people seldom talked about anything interesting and often hurt each other savagely.

We're as ephemeral as raindrops. We all fall, and we all land somewhere.

[There was] only one news channel, overseen by a bland and complexly multicultural board of advisors. It broadcast in fifteen languages and was, as a rule, interesting in none of them.

Nobody wants to conduct an autopsy on a dead saint.

For such people the consummate act of moral clarity was a lynching or a suicide bombing, a fatwa or a pogrom. And they were ascendant now, rising like dark stars over a terminal landscape .

We spent a lot of time discussing cosmology first. I think that was your father's unique way of evaluating people. You can tell a lot about a person, he once said, by the way they look at the stars.

To capture the pawn, threaten the queen.

We're all born strangers to ourselves and each other, and we're seldom formally introduced.

I don't believe money is evil, but it can be terribly corrosive.

I won't put my ignorance on an altar and call it God. It feels like idolatry, like the worst kind of idolatry.

Everybody falls, and we all land somewhere.

We hope to receive what we long for.

Why did you tell me all this?""So if I die, you'd know not to come looking for me when you get to heaven.

She meant to write: "Is Christy here yet?"Auto Correct turned it into: "Is crazy here yet?"For once Auto Correct got it right.

Deceit comes in through the ears, but usually leaves through the eyes.

...Nothing puzzles God

To lie about a far country is easy

Believe you are defeated, believe it long enough, and it is likely to become a fact.

Drinking Garri doesnt mean you're poor, but allowing the garri to swell-up before drinking is Poverty

When I bought out my first autobiography I received the biggest tax bill of my life.

When I was about 10 I ran away to see my father. He couldn't have cared less. He just took me back as soon as he could.