I have no interest in problematizing things. So what I am writing to is that simple sense of being human in myself.

I don't know what it's like to be Jewish, but I suspect there is some aspect of that: being Jewish is the thing that bonds you as opposed to being Jewish from Poland, or Jewish from Hungary.

I feel like that religions generally ask the biggest questions. They may not always have the best answers, but they're the zone of human activity that regularly asks the biggest questions.

I think that literary forms are losing their capacity to connect people to issues, to the experiences that feel most meaningful to them.

The secret of a happy life is respect. Respect for yourself and respect for others.

Religion has been an important part of my understanding, my inquiry into what it means to be human.

I consider myself to have been formed by a lot of the locutions and aesthetics and principles of the Muslim way of life, and those are an important part of my childhood and my identity.