“Now, Anansi stories, they have wit and trickery and wisdom. Now, all over the world, all of the people they aren't just thinking of hunting and being hunted anymore. Now they're starting to think their way out of problems--sometimes thinking their way into worse problems.”

“The way humans hunt for parking and the way animals hunt for food are not as different as you might think.”

“But how are you going to get out, into the world of other people? That is your problem now, if I may hazard a guess — to find the right relationship, now that you know yourself, between the self that you know and the world outside. It is a difficult problem. No living poet has, I think, altogether solved it.”

“Over this odd world, this half the world that's dark now, I have to hunt a thing that lives on tears.”

“We all have problems...everyone does.The only people that don't have any are buried in cemeteries. Rise above your problems and enjoy your life. Change the way you think and you will.”

“The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think”