译文：听取多方面的意见才能明辨是非，只听信一方面的话就会分不清是非。
我不会为了红而做自己不喜欢做的事。
Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it in order to recount it.
The novel is an act of rebellion against reality, an attempt to reshape the world according to one's desires.
A story is not like a road to follow...it's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while, wandering back and forth and settling where you like and discovering how the room and corridors relate to each other, how the world outside is altered by being viewed from these windows.
Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
The challenge is not to represent Africa, but to present African complexities.
"Stories are the way we understand each other."
