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

I don't think Kenya is the only country that tries to induce amnesia - it seems to be a global phenomenon. But offenses do not die. They do not disappear.

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

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.

Kenya is an immense land with a capacity for healing.

Even though we've written epic poems and made incredible films about love, I still don't think anyone can understand what it is, or why it means everything.

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