The gun of the father is always the undoing of the son.

I am a strong believer in the intertwined nature of the personal and the political; I think they move together.

The mobile phone is very dangerous. If you're walking and looking at your phone, you're not walking - you're surfing the internet.

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

You're a watchful guy. you know where that comes from?" I shook my head. "It comes from feeling out of place," he said. "Believe me. I know.

When people, particularly young people and especially young men, can't imagine themselves as heroes in narratives that they construct for themselves, they look to be heroes in some other way. So young men in America of, let's say, Muslim background, only a tiny, tiny minority - so small as to be almost zero - are likely to ever commit terrorist acts.

Being a writer is not the point. Writing is.