If we want things to be okay, we will have to make things okay.

Only in novels can we take another human being into our head and create something jointly.

For many people, there is an almost power to be found in prayer.

I don't want to be a Michael Moore-style artist, which is not to disparage Michael Moore. But he seems rather unsuccessful at winning people over who don't already agree with him.

I come from an enormous and very close family. I have over a dozen aunts and uncles in Pakistan, dozens of cousins. I have many close friends. I have received so much love in Lahore that the city always pulls me.

NYC doesn't have a big sign saying "You must love diversity and the rights of all people." And that's not what makes you love diversity in NYC or anywhere. What makes you love diversity is because you live in it and you experience it.

The ban on the burkini, which is basically a wetsuit, seems particularly ridiculous.