The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilized man is so nervously anxious that personal privacy should be respected.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.

Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.

Everything on earth is beautiful, everything -- except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.

The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.

People should be beautiful in every way - in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.

Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.

If Nigeria will change for the better, then we must take responsibility for the changes in Nigeria.

Art is personal, criticism shouldn't be.

Neither of us had anything to say, or rather we had everything to say, but after all those nights of not saying a word, we suddenly found we had not one dollar of time left between us.

Most magicians are nothing more than laymen with rabbits on their business cards

It's not worth getting into the bullshit to see what the bull ate.

If sentiment doesn't ultimately make fibbers of some people, their natural abominable memories almost certainly will.

Family, that slippery word, a star to every wandering bark, and everyone sailing under a different sky.

I didn't know how well my first album had done; it was enough to get me to do the second album, which was a continuation of the music I'd worked on and perfected.

She was a beefy young woman and, whatever piece of music she was playing, it was definitely losing.

A novel is an impression, not an argument; and there the matter must rest.