The notion of love as a potentially destructive and potentially redemptive human force is something that comes across in all my 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.

This is the music business. 'Five years is five hundred years' - your words.

We are, for all our polish, of littlestature, and, as human lives, compared with authentic martyrs, of no account.

Those of us with water in our personalities don't pick where we'll flow to. All we can do is flow where the landscape of our lives carries us

Most budget airlines anywhere in the world are going to leave you dissatisfied after using them.

IT'S a pitfall to have a definition of photography.

People are transported to that space that Poe wanted to make available to us.

We're living in an era of unprecedented change, and I want to be a part of documenting it.

The authorizing committees are free to set their agency budgets, and that includes NASA.

I remember promising myself that should I live I would prove myself deserving of life.

Happiness that is sought for ourselves alone can never be found.