I am indebted to anyone who has ever written anything. I am indebted to the unknown carver of pictograms on a gallery of stone panels, which I encountered and stood in silence before on top of a distant odd-shaped hill in northern Kenya. For whatever reason the muses have most unexpectedly invited me to join this immense procession. I am humbled and delighted.

Novel-writing is a settling, lovely space. I call it self-indulgent - I feel mildly guilty about it.

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.

Kenya is an immense land with a capacity for healing.

I am indebted to anyone who has ever written anything. I am indebted to the unknown carver of pictograms on a gallery of stone panels, which I encountered and stood in silence before on top of a distant odd-shaped hill in northern Kenya. For whatever reason the muses have most unexpectedly invited me to join this immense procession. I am humbled and delighted.

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

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