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

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.

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.

Rob Chilson's mordant wit will keep you turning the pages until the wee hours!

Truth is dissent, where all power resides in the Big Lie.

When I watch 'Breaking Bad,' my stomach is in knots.

The universe has a body and soul and evolves through cosmic time. As microcosms of stardust, we do the same.

I am quite bereft that I've lost the emoticons from my latest new old berry. Is there anyway [sic] I can add them.

We do not manufacture wants for goods we do not produce.

Take one fresh and tender kiss Add one stolen night of bliss One girl, one boy, some grief, some joy Memories are made of this.

Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.

When you're trying to love two, it sure ain't easy to do.

I've never had much sympathy for orphans, I mean, when I was their age I would have killed to have no parents to make me clean my room and stuff