小说是一种印象，不是一种论证；它是生活的一种印象。

我不是语言，我是声音。

I'm not a light, I'm a darkness.

The challenge is not to represent Africa, but to present African complexities.

The ability to be alone is the ability to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it's not. It is an existential truth: only those who can be alone are able to love, to share, to go into the deepest core of another human being—without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other.