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.

Kenya is an immense land with a capacity for healing.

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

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 do need to find inner tranquillity and get into a "zone" before I switch on the computer to work on a story. Only after this do I enter the story world, where I meet the characters and, together, we work through the day and night.

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