"She sleeps like a cocoyam. A thing without senses. She sleeps like his mother, unplugged from the world."

"Death must take place in the heart to be believed in. After love dies man believes in his death."

"Your baby is crying," says the driver to Taiwo, the Ghanaian way of saying your cell phone is ringing."

"There was the one basic storyline, which everyone knew, with the few custom endings to choose now and again. Basic: h…"

"They were doers and thinkers and lovers and seekers and givers, but dreamers, most dangerously of all. They were drea…"

"Aye, think! Since time and life began, Your mind has only feared and slept; Of all the beasts they called you man Onl…"

"Would you end war? Create great Peace."

"To be a god First I must be a god-maker: We are what we create."

"Hearts starve as well as bodies: Give us Bread, but give us Roses."

"Up in the heights of the evening skies I see my City of Cities float In sunset’s golden and crimson dyes: I look, and…"