“ I, sole heir to the Munodi line and memory, am childless. A friend who knows such things has told me that this explains my compulsion to capture what I can with black ink on white paper." ("The Volati… Rikki Ducornet
“ A book is a private thing, citizen; it belongs to the one who writes it and to the one who reads it. Like the mind itself, a book is a private space. Within that space, anything is possible. The great… Rikki Ducornet
“ A fan is like the thighs of a woman: It opens and closes. A good fan opens with a flick of the wrist. It produces its own weather---a breeze not so strong as to muss the hair. Rikki Ducornet
“ Next I prayed to Allah, whose ears are deaf; then did I beseech his fallen twin, the Devil Hornprick, who sits upon his thorn of fire, gloating upon his constellations and counting his bloody seeds. I… Rikki Ducornet
“ What are books but tangible dreams? What is reading if it is not dreaming? The best books cause us to dream the rest are not worth reading. Rikki Ducornet
