I think there's really strong social stratification in South Asia.

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.

It is the effect of scarcity; one’s rules of propriety make one thirst for the improper.

Artists are in the imagining/ prototyping business. Society needs people to be out there thinking of what might be. That cannot be something we just delegate to politicians or technologists.

A reader should encounter themselves in a novel, I think.

It seems an obvious thing to say, but you should not imagine that we Pakistanis are all potential terrorists, just as we should not imagine that you Americans are all undercover assassins.

Religion is not something I like to talk about publicly. One reason is the politics, but also I think spirituality is deeply personal.