All human stories are migration stories because everyone is a refugee from their own childhood.

Childbirth changed my perception of my wife. She was now the bloodied special forces soldier who had fought and risked everything for our family.

Islam is not a race, yet Islamophobia partakes of racist characteristics.

Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.

It seems an obvious thing to say, but you should not imagine that we Pakistanis are all potential terrorists, just as we should not imagine that you Americans are all undercover assassins.

I think sometimes feeling that you've been marginalized opens you up to the realization that, in their own lives, almost everyone experiences marginalization, a kind of foreigner sense.

Time only moves in one direction. Remember that. Things always change.

I think massive migration is inevitable. As sea levels rise, as climate change happens, as fertile fields become arid, as wars are fought, people are going to move. They always have.

When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain.

It's important to have a non-nostalgic view and say, let's look forward, because if we don't, all we'll hear are voices telling us to go back.

She was struggling against a current that brought her inside herself.

We have accepted it as our unique problem and the fate of our kingdom and have found ways to live on without the sun. We all can be happy if we choose to be."- Sari

I suspect she must speak without emotion or otherwise entirely lose the self-control that is required to speak to me at all.

Mobs in their emotions are much like children, subject to the same tantrums and fits of fury.

Strideth over all mountains, and laugheth at all tragedies

It's very hard to have lived through the Sixties and not be political.

When you are writing fiction your task is to reflect the fullest complications of the world

I grew up on soul music. I was a dancing little creep.

The story of my very first sale is the fact that I dreamed up a foolproof paper to cheat an insurance company out of several hundred thousand dollars.

As I reflect on the results of election I will reflect on what we need to do in the future to take the party forward.

I feel extremely lucky, extremely grateful, and a little bittersweet, too.