Most people seem to think I'm the kind of guy who shaves with a blowtorch. Actually I'm bookish and worrisome.

Take the feeling of hunger out of your gut, and you're no longer a champion

As long as you are curious, you defeat age.

The first duty of life is to live.

When two partners always agree, one of them aint necessary.

Alcoholics are mostly disappointed men.

I found marriage somewhat stifling. I don't know that I am the kind of man who ought to be married.

I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality.

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I judge a restaurant by the bread & the coffee.

I admire honesty and straightforwardness combined with true femininity.

We can achieve even more than we could expect if we try to be less distracted by the fuss of life and concentrate more on developing some qualities or characteristic of our soul and character

We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor

Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.

My love of photography is melded with the ability to capture what I want to remember in the moment I want to never forget.

One's style holds one, thankfully, at bay from the enemies of it but not from the stupid crucifixions by those who must willfully misunderstand it.

I'm trying to use Palestine as a microcosm of the world, but maybe the world is a microcosm of Palestine. We're living in a moment that has lost attachment to the ideology behind boundaries.

Just because we're stupid doesn't mean everybody else was.

I want to assassinate painting.

You needn't tell a bird it's a bird. Or remind a fish of its purpose. It's only us who lose our way. We have names because we must. - from Golden Tongue: The Poems of Steven Slaughter

I identify myself as a Nigerian because that is where I was born and raised and where my family still lives.