Of a truth men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

Mine was the twilight and the morning. Mine was a world of rooftops and love songs.

We may just be specters in this world, but our stories, if they are remembered and retold, become real and solid and alive... Once you hear a story, it becomes part of you. It can't die.

Unfortunately, fact checking has become a lost art

Crushes are more beautiful than affairs because there is no responsibility, no worry, no commitment. Just look at your crush and smile like an idiot.

Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.

It seems to me that there will be a point in out development or our evolution where you put your guns aside.

None but God would ever have thought of justifying me. I am a wonder to myself.

I think one of the big things that's come out of ghostwriting for me is real compassion for the complexity of fame.

I'm sticking with the Heinekens, but doing a few shots here and there.

There are millions of ways for people to die, if you number each vital organ, each ways it can fail, all the poisons from the earth and the sea which can cause these failures.