If you're a so-called minority writer, the temptation is to write for the majority... I refuse to do that.

Every new refugee to a society, whether it's the United States or some other place, is subjected to fear. They are the new outsider population, the new other.

In the United States, the immigrant experience occupies a very central place in American mythology. And sometimes, that place wavers between acceptance and rejection.

Immigrants, as troubling as they are to some people, are an integral part of what the American Dream is supposed to be. They're understandable to a considerable number of Americans.

People might like to think a war is done when a cease fire is signed, but for most people who lived through a war it goes on for decades.

Writers from the majority can assume their audiences know what they're talking about - they don't have to explain things, whereas minority writers are expected to.

My identity is deeply intertwined with being a refugee because that's the first experience that I remember.

I never called myself a writer because it seemed so pretentious - a writer was what somebody else called you, a title bestowed.

I've never stopped being a refugee.

Hollywood in many ways serves as the unofficial ministry of propaganda for the United States.

No one wants for their child to become a refugee. It's an awful experience.

You are waterI’m waterwe’re all water in different containersthat’s why it’s so easy to meetsomeday we’ll evaporate together.

I think dress, hairstyle and make-up are the crucial factors in projecting an attractive persona and give one the chance to enhance one's best physical features.

It is going to take a very brave man to love me.

You must work very hard to become a natural golfer.

Every good mathematician should also be a good chess player and vice versa.

Life is not just eating, drinking, television and cinema...The human mind must be creative, must be self-generating ; it cannot depend on just gadgets to amuse itself.

I was just taking her hand to help her out of a car and I knew. It was like... magic.

I've always wanted to act and I grew up a little on film sets when my dad was working as an actor.

I think that Freud understood absolutely nothing about women - as he himself said.

I guess I also see meditation as part of healthy living. It definitely is important for me to find some mental stillness.