As a writer, I am constantly aware that I take my life in my hands with everything I do and say. It's just a fact of life. For me it always has been.

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.

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

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.

Memories are those endless treasures, which we can keep exploring till eternity and bask in their glory like a slow swinging hammock!

It is not work that kills men it is worry. Work is healthy you can hardly put more upon a man that he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade.

There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's books and write your own.

The bourgeois today burns as heretics and hangs as criminals those to whom he erects monuments tomorrow.

I left it with a warmer,” he said drily. Because war mages ate their fried chicken frozen to the ground and they liked it.

By not coming forward, you make yourself a victim forever.

Once we get three more directors elected, the Sierra Club will no longer be pro-hunting and pro-trapping and we can use the resources of the $95-million-a-year budget to address some of these issues.

I thought America needed to see what a normal family was really like.

As you walk through forests or the meadows of your mind, Stop and talk to those you fear Good friendships you may find

It's exciting to, uh, it's very exciting to know that doors have a possibility of opening to certain situations.