You're never rude,' she said, smiling, 'and I think it's good to be touchy sometimes. It means you care.

I think that people are going to move. They always have and that's going to continue. The question is, how are we going to deal with it?

The mobile phone is very dangerous. If you're walking and looking at your phone, you're not walking - you're surfing the internet.

In a subway car, my skin would typically fall in the middle of the color spectrum. On street corners, tourists would ask me for directions. I was, in four and a half years, never an American; I was immediately a New Yorker.

Islamophobia, in all its guises, seeks to minimise the importance of the individual and maximise the importance of the group. Yet our instinctive stance ought to be one of suspicion towards such endeavours. For individuals are undeniably real. Groups, on the other hand, are assertions of opinion.

I believe one can gauge a book's impact only after about 10 years.

Pakistan hasn't been cast in the role of... interesting cultural place or, you know, land of great comedians.