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

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

Growing up in Pakistan in the 1980s, I lived in the shadow of a tyrannical state.

I think writing is a very political act. I think that any writer who says it's not, is simply a writer who is disavowing the political connotations of what they write.

It's in being read that a book becomes a book, and in each of a million different readings a book become one of a million different books . . .

What else is belief but direction?

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