It is easier to get lost within sight of the palace. [...] Hope makes all things near, and so can prove treacherous. - Ben Okri

Strange things are happening to us.’‘To our children.’‘They say
he is looking for the spirit of Independence.’‘They say he is looking for himself.’‘For his own
spirit.’‘Which he lost when the white man came.

To see the madness and yet walk a perfect silver line. ... That's what the true story-teller should be: a great guide, a clear mind, who can walk a silver line in hell or madness.

We can redream this world and make the dream come real. Human beings are gods hidden from themselves.