All I ever want is to return to either Bangladesh, my motherland, or India, my adopted home.

I believe in absolute freedom of expression. Everyone has a right to offend and be offended.

I strongly believe that no one can be a true feminist without being an atheist. All religions are anti-women. No one can be pro-woman while supporting anti-woman dogmas.

Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!

It is unfair to label me anti-Islam. I am an atheist and a secular humanist.

Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that?

I have had fatwas issued against me, some three in Bangladesh and another five in India. I will not be cowed by these threats and shall fight for my rights.

I am an atheist. I do not believe in prayers, I believe in work. And my work is that of an author. My pen is my weapon.

Religion, society and state - from none of these do women get their proper honor. It is religion, which has created an unparalleled disparity between men and women.

If any religion allows the persecution of the people of different faiths, if any religion keeps women in slavery, if any religion keeps people in ignorance, then I can't accept that religion.

I write against the religion because if women want to live like human beings, they will have to live outside the religion and Islamic law.

You could be a very trustworthy person. It doesn't matter! If they just met you, they decide to trust you or not in the 1st 3 - 4 seconds...

The business of lying is transacted in the abode of the gullible.

Some things are not supposed to be forgotten

I desired dragons with a profound desire.

I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I've never had that attitude to music.

There is no true life. Your true life is the one you end up with, whatever it may be. You just do the best you can with what you've got.

When thus the heart is in a vein Of tender thought, the simplest strain Can touch it with peculiar power.

Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance.

I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy.

When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name.