Burma evoked the lost Kenyan soldiers who served in the war. You never hear about them. There were a significant number of casualties, men who never came back home. But they're never commemorated.

Kenya is an immense land with a capacity for healing.

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

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

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.

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

Even if you're in charge of the grand story there's still memory. The other stories do not go away.