"The storyteller is a problem-solver."

"A man who calls his kinsmen to a feast does not do so to save them from starvation, but to demonstrate his wealth and the greatness of his name."

"The world is not a market where you can buy and sell everything."

"The writer is often faced with the dilemma of how to write about a society that is rapidly changing."

"The impatient man does not live to tell how the world was made."