Paper is the strongest material in the world. Things under which a mountain will crumble, you can place on paper and it will hold: beauty at its most intense; love at its fiercest; the greatest grief; the greatest rage.

All great artists know that part of their task is to light up the distance between two human beings.

There is nothing that torments Satan more than the sight of a faithful in prayer.

There are times in this life when a person must do or say things he doesn't want to. Human beings and chains, it is the oldest acquaintanceship in the world.

Pakistan produces people of extraordinary bravery. But no nation should ever require its citizens to be that brave.

To visit certain streets was to realise that only the sky remained unchanged there.

As a writer, my homeland is the desk where I work.