When terrorism strikes, divisive anger is a natural response.

I really do believe that people surprise you. And one of the powerful things about novels is that they're about characters, and those characters live their lives.

Love is transient even on a very personal level. We lose everyone that we love. Sometimes we drift apart and sometimes we die.

Pakistan hasn't been cast in the role of... interesting cultural place or, you know, land of great comedians.

For a combination of reasons, and despite evident fondness for American products and individuals, my impression is that most Pakistanis have extremely negative views of the US as a geopolitical player.

Well, one thing that has changed is the number of people killed by terrorists in Pakistan. Civilians killed has gone down really quite dramatically. There was a newspaper article here about a month ago that got big headlines which said that civilian deaths from terrorism were down something like 80 percent or 90 percent from their peak of two or three years ago.

The world seems concerned with Pakistan primarily as an actor in global attempts to combat terrorism.