Outsiders often have an insight that an insider doesn’t quite have
Outsiders often have an insight that an insider doesn’t quite have.
Outsiders often have an insight that an insider doesn’t quite have.
Mental health is often missing from public health debates even though it’s critical to wellbeing.
Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.
I truly believe that writing is a continuum – so the different genres and forms are simply stops along the same continuum. Different ideas that need to be expressed sometimes require different forms for the ideas to float better. I don’t write essays as often as I should.
My books are often shelved around those of Chinua Achebe and Margaret Atwood, or Chimamanda Adichie and Monica Ali. All of this depends, of course, on the bookstore and how conversant the shelf stocker is with the alphabet.
Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship – never.
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant’s revolving door.
For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.