Im from a family of doctors, and I think they really wanted me to be a doctor. I even sort of assumed I would be a doctor.

I approximated the Black Friday experience at home by hurling myself into a wall a number of times and then ordering online.

We only hear success stories. You don't hear about the hundreds and hundreds - the overwhelming majority that don't go anywhere. This is a more realistic portrayal of what happens in startups.

The plan was always to come to America, because Pakistan's a scary place. They don't have religious freedom. It's very poor, and there's a lot of violence and corruption.

Just because you saw a vampire doesn't mean that a snowman or a Loch Ness Monster also exists.

I think being funny had something to do with feeling like an outsider, not feeling cool - insecurity.

The whole religion of Islam is based on reward and punishment and reward and punishment, and it becomes a part of how you think of everything. Even yourself.

I thought of America as this crazy, happy, exciting place where everybody's rich and there's stuff everywhere. Compared to Pakistan, it's not untrue.

I was extremely shy and had a terrible fear of public speaking. But I had fallen in love with stand-up.

I am a very nerdy guy. I understand that it's easier to cast me as a nerdy guy than an action star - although I would love to be an action star!

It's not like I listened to music and then stopped. I still don't have a real appreciation for music because I didn't really start listening to it until my 20s.

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you do hold well.

I made a pact with myself a long time ago: Never watch anything stupider than you. It's helped me a lot.

Poetry can be the bridge, the crossover point in the mind between the physical and the spiritual. A place where the two can meet.

The only way to speak the truth is to speak lovingly.

Coen brothers movies are not always what life looks like but it's definitely what life feels like.

So many cowboys....so little rope.

I am certain in my heart that all that I am, I have received from God.

I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life.

Alarmed, I realized what my visceral reaction implied: jealousy. Over a guy I barely knew, with whom I’d exchanged more saliva than sentences.

I think a lot of people get in trouble with the law.