There's a reason prophets perform miracles; language lacks the power to describe faith.

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.

Knowledge is free at the library. Just bring your own container.

If giving points to some students to achieve greater diversity is a quota system in violation of the Constitution, how can the awarding of points to the children of a less diverse alumni be upheld?

Yes, I see that you are behaving like a prince but that doesn't mean you won't behave like a devil at the first opportunity.

Lawyers are the jackals of commerce.

We are all of us walking a razor's edge between darkness and light.

Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Without monsters and gods, art cannot enact a drama.

When I was growing up, we always had music playing in our household. I enjoy spending time with my father singing.

Gather kittens while you may, Time brings only sorrow; And the kittens of today; Will be old cats tomorrow.

In a more intellectually rigorous age, I wouldn't be talked about as a satirist at all. I would just be a topical comedian.