If Islam is to be reconciled with modernity, these voices must be encouraged until they swell into a roar.

I became a writer because I got addicted to story. The first storyteller in my life was my father.

We all owe death a life.

Is birth always a fall?

The only people who see the whole picture,' he murmured, 'are the ones who step out of the frame.

What you were is forever who you are.

Look at history. It's not the account of a species at peace.