"What is one flesh from another? So I tried it again, just to be sure of myself. It was the first step to power, you understand. Power in its purest sense. The end of inhibitions. The conquest of weakness of your too human flesh with all its sentiment."

"Power comes from bending Nature to your will."

"It’s my life that’s gone into his. I haven’t burrowed so deep to cast good earth onto worthless seeds…."

"God rot your coward bones! Do you think not enough people die here that you must come and threaten me with death. You spurious spew. You instrument of mortgage. You unlicensed appendage of the steering wheel..."

"I said: "A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces". In other words: a tiger does not stand in the forest and say: "I am a tiger". When you pass where the tiger has walked before, you see the skeleton of the duiker, you know that some tigritude has been emanated there."

"...There are dangers in the Quest I know, but the Word may be found companion not to life, but Death."

"Do you take me for a common gawper after misery?... My bed is among the dead, and when the road rises a victory cry to break my sleep I hurry to a disgruntled swam of souls full of spite for their rejected bodies"

"Nonsense, we run a bus. The seats face where you are going"

"You say you get pride and you are still a conductor on a bolekaja."

"It's a foolish elder who becomes a creditor, since he must wait until the other world, or outlive his debtors."

"If the young sapling bends, the old twig if it resists the wind, can only break."

"When a squirrel seeks sanctuary up the iroko tree the hunter's chase is ended."

"Age has shrunk the tortoise and the shell is full of air pockets."

"When the dog hides a bone does he not throw up sand?"

"The ostrich also sports plumes but I've yet to see that wise bird leave the ground."

"We lift the King's umbrella higher than men but it never pushes the sun in the face."

"Only a foolish child lets a father prostrate to him."

"It is a mindless clown who dispenses thanks as a fowl scatters meal not caring where it falls."

"It was our fathers who said, not I - a crown is a burden when the king visits his favourite's chambers. When the king's wrapper falls off in audience, wise men know he wants to be left alone."

"The nude shanks of a king is not a sight for children - it will blind them."

"A shilling's vegetable must appease a halfpenny spice."

"A King does not become a menial just because he puts down his crown to eat."

"The descendants of our great forebears...let them symbolize all that is noble in our nation.""

"The guests we were sent are slaves and lackeys. They have only come to undermine our strength. To preach to us how ignoble we are."

"When your businessmen ruin the lesser ones, do you go crying to them?""

"Doesn't she look like the type that would drive men to madness and self-destruction?"

"Recognition is the curse I carry with me."

""I have a particular aversion to being mauled by women"

"Why don't you confess it? You are the type who would rather die in your bed."

"Adenebi becomes defensive and says, "Have you no feeling for those who died?""