We think of the romance novel as a lesser form of literature, but I don't think that's true. Love is a very important aspect of human life and worth exploring.

If we try to 'protect ourselves', our nation-states begin to look like prisons.

It is the effect of scarcity; one’s rules of propriety make one thirst for the improper.

Television has given Pakistan a truly open national forum for the first time in its history. Ideas are debated, leaders are assessed and criticised, and a nation of 170 million people is finally discovering, together, what it thinks.

Yes, Manila had its slums; one saw them on the drive from the airport: vast districts of men in dirty white undershirts lounging idly in front of auto-repair shops - like a poorer version of the 1950s America depicted in such films as Grease.

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?

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