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.

I was, in my own eyes, a veritable James Bond — only younger, darker, and possibly better paid.

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

There's a reason prophets perform miracles; language lacks the power to describe faith.

The notion of love as a potentially destructive and potentially redemptive human force is something that comes across in all my books.

Transience is what is normal. The problem is that we are busily trying to create political structures and cultural expressions that deny that and to deny that is to deny the basic idea of what is human.

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