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

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

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.

When the machine of a human being is turned on, it seems to produce a protagonist, just as a television produces an image.

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.

Literature helps us transcend ourselves.

All over the world, the nativist perspective is being privileged over those who are more recent arrivals.