For Kenya: we have a chance to start again each time we meet one another. The ghosts do not need to define the future.

Kenya is an immense land with a capacity for healing.

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

The truth, and nothing but the truth, is that dawn begins with a wrestling match with my soul and a systematic rejection of all the other useful possibilities a day offers. I make obeisance to the story, its characters, and the muse with burnt offerings.

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

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 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.