Give sustenance, Allah. Give sustenance to me.

There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.

I grew up with some kind of storytelling instinct, and when I write, my default setting is to find a story and then to tell it. It's the only way I know how to write.

Blood is a powerful thing

Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is... God help him.

I give novels as gifts, and there is nothing I like to receive more as a gift.

I remember reading 'The Grapes of Wrath' in high school in 1983. My family had immigrated to the U.S. three years before, and I had spent the better part of the first two years learning English. John Steinbeck's book was the first book I read in English where I had an 'Aha!' moment, namely in the famed turtle chapter.