I come from a culture that has refined the art of the dirge to a sublime level.

I like talking to myself and making patterns out of the letters of the alphabet on blank surfaces.

The young readers I have interacted with carry old concerns repackaged in the skin of a new generation: puzzlement over continuous national moral failings, contradictions with the elders, nostalgia for a nonexistent Kenyan past.

Kenya is a mercurial character. I feel the country has a presence that can turn on its people in a very violent way.

It may not seem that way, but I am an absolute optimist, an unrepentant optimist.

I get turned on by the idea of an essence - finding the essence of the thing.

I can edit into infinity. It's such a joy. I'd probably edit until the last word. Until there's only one word left.