Eugene Ionesco

Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.

Cut off from his religious, metaphysical and transcendental roots, man is lost; all his actions become senseless, absurd, useless.

Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.

Jokes are very curious things psychologically.

In early 1993, when I was 12, I was separated from my family as the Sierra Leone civil war, which began two years earlier, came into my life.

I've always been very determined, ever since I was a little girl, to make my way.