Beware of the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world..

I held you in the square And felt the evening Re-order itself around Your smile..

Our time here is magic! It's the only space you have to realize whatever it is that is beautiful, whatever is true, whatever is great, whatever is po….

Literature doesn't have a country. Shakespeare is an African writer. His Falstaff, for example, is very African in his appetite for life, his largene….

I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people..

There is a kind of expressed love which is easy to subvert. When a figure is loved for their deeds, their conquests, their heroism, their goodness, t….

Destiny plans a different route and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn't have expected..

One human life is deeper than the ocean. Strange fishes and sea-monsters and mighty plants live in the rock-bed of our spirits. The whole of human hi….

Don't read what everyone else is reading. Check them out later, cautiously..

I was going to be a scientist..

It is easy to forget how mysterious and mighty stories are. They do their work in silence, invisibly. They work with all the internal materials of yo….

One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoas….

The greatest religions convert the world through stories..

The road will never swallow you. The river of destiny will always overcome evil. May you understand your fate. Suffering will never destroy you, but ….

This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down..

Wholeness is the enemy of the artist. We ought to be broken, ruined in some way..

A man's greatest battles are the ones he fights within himself..

I was born left-handed, but I was made to use my other hand. When I was writing 'Famished Road,' which was very long, I got repetitive stress syndrom….

We can still astonish the gods in humanity And be the stuff of future legends, If we but dare to be real, And have the courage to see That this i….

The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing..

What hope is there for individual reality or authenticity when the forces of violence and orthodoxy, the earthly powers of guns and bombs and manipul….