Look at Ayatollah Khomeini's revolution and the slogans that they used: anti-imperialism; anti-colonialism; the struggle of the have-nots against the haves; the state monopoly over economy, which was very much patterned after the Soviet Union. All of these things did not come out of Islam. Islam is not that developed.

You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist.

It takes courage to die for a cause, but also to live for one.

I no longer believe that we can keep silent. We never really do, mind you. In one way or another we articulate what has happened to us through the kind of people we become.

She was one of those people who are irrevocably, incurably honest and therefore both inflexible and vulnerable at the same time.

I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to its poetry. I see polarization, reductionism and superficiality.

I think Islam is in a sense, in crisis. It needs to question and re-question itself.