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

For me, writing a novel is like solving a puzzle. But I don't intend my novels as puzzles. I intend them as invitations to dance.

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

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

When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain.

What did I think of Princeton? Well, the answer to that question requires a story. When I first arrived, I looked around me at the Gothic buildings - younger, I later learned, than many of the mosques of this city, but made through acid treatment and ingenious stone-masonry to look older.

In a way, every parent is sort of dependent on the benevolence of the society around them to take care of their children.