You can live in the same city your entire life and still be completely a foreigner when you step out, in your old age, onto the street.
Mohsin HamidIf the dominant political expression that we're seeing right now is of nostalgia and we know that nostalgia won't really work out, what happens is, we become depressed as individuals and societies - when we're depressed, we're much more vulnerable to be taken advantage of by demagogues and xenophobes.
Mohsin HamidOnly in novels can we take another human being into our head and create something jointly.
Mohsin Hamid