"Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head."

“I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.”

“The Lord help me to press after God forever”

“For years and years I carried these notebooks around with me - I had hundreds of pages of notes, these fragments that consisted of biographical anecdotes, diary passages, critical rants, agitations, scenes of my marriage.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

“You must take a year off, one of these days, before you’re old and tired and weighed down by responsibility. Go away somewhere, and read. Read all the important books. Educate yourself, then you’ll see the world in a different way.”

Source : Helon Habila (2010). “Oil on Water”, p.181, Penguin UK

“The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.”

Source : Said in 1983. "The Pacific Rim and the Western World: Strategic, Economic, and Cultural Perspectives". Book edited by Philip West, Frans A.M. Alting von Geusau, p. 105, 1987.

“There is no devil in the first two chapters of the Bible and no devil in the last two chapters. Thank God for a book that disposes of the devil!”

“Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.”

“It is important to recognize and politics positive thinking is often the slaves' virtue - something that people do to con themselves about the burden and change being placed upon them.”