The history of a culture can be determined by its untranslatable words.

I reluctantly concluded that there was no way for me to help bring into being the Muslim culture I'd dreamed of, the progressive, irreverent, skeptical, argumentative, playful and unafraid culture which is what I've always understood as freedom.... Actually Existing Islam ... which makes literalism a weapon and redescription a crime, will never let the likes of me in.

Everybody loves 'The Wire,' and I think it's okay, but in the end it's just a police series.

In an ideal world, you could reunite the Pakistan-occupied part of Kashmir with the Indian-occupied part and restore the old borders. You could have both India and Pakistan agreeing to guarantee those borders, demilitarise the area, and to invest in it economically. In a sane world that would happen, but we don't live in a sane world.

The lessons one learns at school are not always the ones the school thinks it's teaching.

One of the characteristics of mudslinging is that mud sticks if it's thrown with enough force for long enough.

Children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison.