I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories.

We are, at almost every point of our day, immersed in cultural diversity: faces, clothes, smells, attitudes, values, traditions, behaviours, beliefs, rituals.

Sometimes it's easy to lose faith in people. And sometimes one act of kindness is all it takes to give you hope again.

When it comes to the hijab - why to wear it, whether to wear it, how to wear it - there is theology and then there is practice, and there is huge diversity in both.

Belief means nothing without actions

What’s the good of being true to your religion on the outside, if you don’t change what’s on the inside,were it really counts ?

In a multicultural, diverse society there are countless ways in which people negotiate the everyday lived experience and reality of diversity.

But persistent name calling? that prolongs hurt. It stretches out. Each nasty word stretches the rubber band further away until finally, one day, it snaps back at you with maximum impact

True friends are those who love you not in spite of your faults and imperfections, but because of them.

The easiest way for readers to connect with characters and feel sympathy is to make the character entertaining, sympathetic and likeable.

When you exist in the centre of a debate, as a topic, a hypothesis - otherised and stigmatised - you become the prop in a proposition.

Bait, no matter how big, is useless if fish don’t want it.

This jeweled coast does not shine for its gems are coated with grit.

May be you find out I could be useful getting people out of camps and prisons in Germany - just before they got shot. I should love to do it and I like to jump out of a plane even every day.

The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives.

Schoolteachers are not fully appreciated by parents until it rains all day Saturday.

Many people learn how to talk, but they don't learn how to listen. Listening to one another is an important thing in life. And music tells us how to do that.

So these Red Sox... are they a Communist organization?

You can go as far as your mind lets you.

Danger comes on us more speedily when we treat it with contempt.

If God always met our expectations, He'd never be able to exceed them.