This is among the few things that can be said about love with any confidence. It is small enough to be contained within the heart but, pull thin, it would drape the entire world.

Pull a thread here and you’ll find it’s attached to the rest of the world.

Pakistan produces people of extraordinary bravery. But no nation should ever require its citizens to be that brave.

On the journey towards the beloved, you live by dying at every step

There is nothing that torments Satan more than the sight of a faithful in prayer.

How keen everyone is to make this world their home forgetting its impermanence It's like trying to see and name constellations in a fireworks display.

Afghanistan had collapsed and everyone's life now lies broken at different levels within the rubble.

There are no innocent people in a guilty nation.

To visit certain streets was to realise that only the sky remained unchanged there.

All great artists know that part of their task is to light up the distance between two human beings.

History is the third parent.

Debates should always move in the direction of understanding.

There's always going to be a place for YouTube.

I woke up at five o'clock in the morning with the whole first paragraph in my head. Now, this just shows what a slothful person I am: I tried to go back to sleep.

When I was twelve, I started reading Eudora Welty, Thomas Wolfe, Flannery O'Connor, James Agee, and - do we dare breathe the name - William Faulkner.

I will have no locked cupboards in my life.

I'm a big cardigan sweater guy.

I grew up flying over oceans and moving and sailing.

I have a huge issue with blackface.

We say seeing is believing, but actually, we are much better at believing than at seeing. In fact, we are seeing what we believe all the time and occasionally seeing what we can't believe

But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.