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.

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.

Matters of the subconscious affect reality in ways we don't quite realize.

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

Every Kenyan writer has offered me something to hold onto, something to believe in.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.

Education is the bane of life, the foundation of society and the liberation of generations.

You cannot win a War on Terrorism. It's like having a war on jealousy.

A pitcher has to look at the hitter as his mortal enemy.

We're nothing if we're not loved. When you meet somebody who is more important to you than yourself, that has to be the most important thing.

I'm a big supporter of immigration.

The trouble is, old age is not interesting until one gets there. It's a foreign country with an unknown language to the young and even to the middle-aged.

I had popcorn all over the place, so I decided I might as well be in the Processing Business.