• I deeply respect American sentimentality, the way one respects a wounded hippo. You must keep an eye on it, for you know it is deadly.

    Teju Cole: I deeply respect American sentimentality, the way one respects a wounded hippo. You must keep an eye on it, for you know it is deadly.
    Teju Cole (2016). “Known and Strange Things”, p.240, Faber & Faber