I think every morning we wake up offers a new beginning, a new way of stepping into the day. I think every conversation could be a new chance.

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

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

Recording stories is a way of honoring the faculty of memory, even if it's recorded, outsourcing memory to technology.

Every Kenyan writer has offered me something to hold onto, something to believe in.

Even if we want to eradicate our ghosts, our dead, our murdered, even if you erase a name and the record of the existence of a person, somebody remembers.

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.