I think that people are going to move. They always have and that's going to continue. The question is, how are we going to deal with it?

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.

With persistence and never-ending improvements you can be the best.

Those words of hers had meant nothing - you could not dismiss [however] a human being so easily.

I was especially perceptive to all things beautiful that morning—raspberries in blue china bowls were enough to make the heart sing.

Freedom is such a gift.

You know what Andy Warhol's sole contribution to this country has been? He made Campbell's Soup a household word.

Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

I miss the animal buoyancy of New York, the animal vitality. I did not mind that it had no meaning and no depth.

This world we exist in is populated by people who have really shut themselves off from life.

Watch out for trees and traffic. The change is slow, the impact great, yet we miss the one and mistake the other.

Anything that has cynicism to it and that's jaded is smutty.