Islam is not a race, yet Islamophobia partakes of racist characteristics.

All human stories are migration stories because everyone is a refugee from their own childhood.

You're never rude,' she said, smiling, 'and I think it's good to be touchy sometimes. It means you care.

Chance plays a powerful role in every life - our brains and personalities are just chemical soup, after all; a few drops here or there matter enormously - but consequences often become more serious as income levels go down.

Writing a novel is like an amusement park or a museum or a city. You go into that place and you have certain experiences and those experiences, hopefully, have some impact on you.

When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain.

I don't want to be a Michael Moore-style artist, which is not to disparage Michael Moore. But he seems rather unsuccessful at winning people over who don't already agree with him.