One thing I can tell you is this, that I am not a methodical writer.

I am a glutton for tranquility.

One thing I don't believe I am at all is bitter.

Art is solace; art is vision, and when I pick up a literary work, I am a consumer of literature for its own sake.

I am convinced that Nigeria would have been a more highly developed country without the oil. I wished we'd never smelled the fumes of petroleum.

Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.