My heart broke open and history fell in.

I discovered that if you find the language to talk to younger readers, children can accept anything.

I grew up falling in love with kind of story, amazing, wonder tale of the East, which if you're a child growing up in India is all around you.And I think one of the gifts it gave me as a writer was this early knowledge that stories are not true.

In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.

In early Islam, it was an absolute tenet that the prophet was not to be worshipped. The prophet was a messenger. And one of the things that's happened in Islam is this cult of the prophet, which to my view is counter to the original tradition.

I did a lot of student acting when I was young.

I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.