I thought of America as this crazy, happy, exciting place where everybody's rich and there's stuff everywhere. Compared to Pakistan, it's not untrue.

I was on this path to becoming a computer-science guy, but I didn't like it. I got no joy from it. It was very, very scary. It was suffocating to think that I was just going to do this thing for the rest of my life.

I approximated the Black Friday experience at home by hurling myself into a wall a number of times and then ordering online.

The whole religion of Islam is based on reward and punishment and reward and punishment, and it becomes a part of how you think of everything. Even yourself.

It wasn't until I moved to New York that I decided to make a conscious effort to be myself.

Im from a family of doctors, and I think they really wanted me to be a doctor. I even sort of assumed I would be a doctor.

I love, love, love the street-cart food. Gyros are like a meat-flavored fruit roll-up. A meat roll-up.