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 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.

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

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

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.

Kenya is an immense land with a capacity for healing.