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

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

I'd rather create a miniature painting than a Taj Mahal of a book.

We need to start imagining the future or it will get imagined for us, and the ways that it has been imagined thus far don't seem very attractive.

Sometimes we are looking for somebody we can connect with on the basis of a shared past or a tradition or experience. And so finding that you're sitting next to someone very much like you in terms of where they come from is enormously reassuring.

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

I think the idea of migration through time is very important because every human being does that and it unites us with people who migrate through geography.