I felt suddenly very young - or perhaps I felt my age.

I think sometimes feeling that you've been marginalized opens you up to the realization that, in their own lives, almost everyone experiences marginalization, a kind of foreigner sense.

I don't know if I'm truly at home in any language.

Capitalism is like the law of the jungle with a few rules. There isn't another system that works for our society but left unchecked, capitalism can have a dehumanising effect.

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

Sufi poetry is, in a sense, self-help poetry about how to live a decent life, how to deal with your mortality.

I was, in my own eyes, a veritable James Bond — only younger, darker, and possibly better paid.