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

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.

I’m not afraid of anything and I will not fight.

Sis I've been wondering . . . On my birthday mom always gives me five thousand dollars. How much does she give you?

Nothing is as seductive as the assurance of success.

I am not a painter, nor an artist. Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing.

I always wonder whether I'll get treated differently with a different accent.

If we hope to go anywhere or develop ourselves in any way, we can only step from where we are standing. If we don't really know where we are standing... We may only go in circles.

There is no salvation for us but to adopt Civilization and lift ourselves down to its level.

Middle management is a disease.

A knowledge that another has felt as we have felt, and seen things not much otherwise than we have seen them, will continue to the end to be one of life's choicest blessings.

When the world sees us doing evangelism, they just see us recruiting. When they see us doing justice, they see God's glory.