It's in being read that a book becomes a book, and in each of a million different readings a book become one of a million different books . . .

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.

Feeling of hatred unto your enemy, drains your energy as enemy wanted.

An archer must never blame a target for missing it.

The only real evidence that any critic may bring before his gaze is the finished poem.

Home is the first school for us all, a school with no fixed curriculum, no quality control, no examinations, no teacher training

If there wasn't a God we would have to invent one to keep people sane.

There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be.

Donald Trump is the Honey Boo Boo of rich people.

Accessibility drives traffic and growth in technology. That's a proven trend in technology.

Criticizing to destroy is easy, thinking in order to build is much more difficult to achieve