Writers don't own their words. Since when do words belong to anybody. "Your very own words," indeed ! And who are you?.

Things can change in a day..

I've never been onstage in my life..

Politics is a thing that only the unsophisticated can really go for..

Learn to commend thy daily acts to God, so shall the dry every-day duties of common life be steps to heaven, and lift they heart hither..

The greatest of the great make others better..

Once you reach what is / inside it is outside..

You can choose not to be interested in politics, but you can’t choose to be unaffected by it.

You are either going forward or you are not..

I have learnt to be a congratulator and not a hater!.

You do a lot of concatenating when you're an Oulipian.

Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth)..

We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it..

What we do belongs to what we are; and what we are is what becomes of us..

Do something. Do something small. Do something small but useful. Do something small but useful now..

I had rather be guillotined than a guillotiner..

I do not sing politics. I merely sing the truth..

I fell in love with Africa while I was there..

Those who live, live off the dead..

You're making a movie, not a documentary. If you made a film like the historians would like you to make, you're not going to go and see it. I'd rathe….

I'm not an actor. I can show up for friends and improvise a little bit, but I'm not an actor..