Maybe There Are Only Three Kinds Of

When You Stop Inventing Reality Then You See Things As They Really Are.

Wholeness Is The Enemy Of The Artist. We Ought To Be Broken, Ruined In Some Way.

A People Are As Healthy And Confident As The Stories They Tell Themselves. Sick Storytellers Can Make Nations Sick. Without Stories We Would Go Mad. Life Would Lose It’s Moorings Or Orientation... Stories Can Conquer Fear, You Know. They Can Make The Heart Larger.

Literature Doesn't Have A Country. Shakespeare Is An African Writer. His Falstaff, For Example, Is Very African In His Appetite For Life, His Largeness Of Spirit. The Characters Of Turgenev Are Ghetto Dwellers. Dickens Characters Are Nigerians.

The Magician And The Politician Have Much In Common: They Both Have To Draw Our Attention Away From What They Are Really Doing.