I don't know if I'm truly at home in any language.

I responded to the gravity of an invisible moon at my core, and I undertook journeys I had not expected to take.

The monolithic view that many Americans have of Pakistani culture is as inaccurate as the monolithic view that many Pakistanis have of American culture.

Being a writer is not the point. Writing is.

I think sometimes feeling that you've been marginalized opens you up to the realization that, in their own lives, almost everyone experiences marginalization, a kind of foreigner sense.

What else is belief but direction?

I think massive migration is inevitable. As sea levels rise, as climate change happens, as fertile fields become arid, as wars are fought, people are going to move. They always have.