History is the third parent.

There are no innocent people in a guilty nation.

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

How keen everyone is to make this world their home forgetting its impermanence It's like trying to see and name constellations in a fireworks display.

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

The neighbourhood is a place of...intrigue and emotional espionage, where when two people stop to talk on the street their tongues are like the two halves of a scissor coming together, cutting reputations and good names to shreds.

A lie does not become truth just because ten people are telling it.