"We never think that our mothers will die. It was like suddenly an abyss opened at my feet - I was st..." — Ben Okri

Fire is one of my temperaments. It is behind all my work... Fire is a chemical presence.

Home can be the friend you have been searching for all your life or the person you met once very briefly.

You cannot come to a Nigerian restaurant without having pepper soup.

At the heart of 'The Famished Road' is a philosophical conundrum - for me, an essential one: what is reality? Everybody's reality is subjective; it's conditioned by upbringing, ideas, temperament, religion, what's happened to you.