Contradictions if well understood and managed can spark off the fires of invention. Orthodoxy whether of the right or of the left is the graveyard of creativity.
Serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict.
When a mad man walks naked, it is his kinsmen who feel shame, not himself.
I don’t care about age very much.
There is nothing to fear from someone who shouts.
I think writers are not only writers, they are also citizens.
When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.
My son even if you want to fall, at least fall where your bones can be gathered.
If the clan did not exact punishment for an offense against the great goddess, her wrath was loosed on all the land and not just on the offender. As the elders said, if one finger brought oil it soiled all the others.
A boy sent by his father to steal does not go stealthily but breaks the door with his feet.
What a man does not know is greater than he.
The writer cannot expect to be excused from the task of reeducation and regeneration that must be done. In fact, he should march right in front.
When we hear a house has fallen do we ask if the ceiling fell with it?
He is a fool who treats his brother worse than a stranger.
You might as well say that the woman lies on top of the man when they are making the babies.
The language of young men is pull down and destroy; but an old man speaks of conciliation.
Every lizard lies on its belly, so we cannot tell which has a belly-ache.
A man who lived on the banks of the Niger should not wash his hands with spittle.
An old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb.
Women and music should not be dated.