She was struggling against a current that brought her inside herself.

Sufi poetry is, in a sense, self-help poetry about how to live a decent life, how to deal with your mortality.

I think that things were getting really very bad a couple of years ago, and there's been a very significant change in response to that on the part of the security forces and the government, but particularly the army. And you see Pakistan actually fighting terrorism and terrorists in a much more wholehearted way than had been occurring previously. It's not anywhere close to over yet, but you've seen a big change in the antiterrorism campaign here.

I don't think the function of writing, at least for me as a fiction writer, is to say to people, "Here's the answer." It's not an op-ed.

It is remarkable indeed how we human beings are capable of delighting in the mating call of a flower while we are surrounded by the charred carcasses of our fellow animals.

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

What else is belief but direction?