Americans need to educate themselves, from elementary school onward, about what their country has done abroad. And they need to play a more active role in ensuring that what the United States does abroad is not merely in keeping with a foreign policy elite's sense of realpolitik but also with the American public's own sense of American values.

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

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

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

If my daughter wanted to wear a headscarf and dress in a religiously conservative way, I would be heartbroken. But if she were to decide to do that and she were to live in a place where people said she couldn't do that, I would be entirely committed to her right to do so.

Novel writing is solitary work.

All human stories are migration stories because everyone is a refugee from their own childhood.