I responded to the gravity of an invisible moon at my core, and I undertook journeys I had not expected to take.

If an American teenager were to come to Lahore, they'd have wildly different experiences depending on whom they met. They could party and get drunk and smoke hashish with some, while others would say, "Let's get some religious instruction."

When terrorism strikes, divisive anger is a natural response.

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?

Novels function and the power of novels function because of their stories.

We need to start imagining the future or it will get imagined for us, and the ways that it has been imagined thus far don't seem very attractive.

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