Lots of times you can feel as an exile in a country that you were born in.

America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry?

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

Memories have ways of becoming independent of the reality they evoke. They can soften us against those we were deeply hurt by or they can make us resent those we once accepted and loved unconditionally.

What we search for in fiction is not so much reality, but the epiphany of truth.

Once we know of atrocities we cannot remain silent, and knowledge inevitably leads to an urge to protect the innocent.

My passion has always been books and literature, and teaching.