She saw him fracture into rainbow colors through the prism of her love.

What you were is forever who you are.

I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.

There is no alternative to the peaceful coexistence of cultures.

The thing about literature is that, yes, there are kind of tides of fashion, you know; people come in and out of fashion; writers who are very celebrated fall into, you know, people you know stop reading them, and then it comes back again.

The question I'm always asking myself is: are we masters or victims? Do we make history, or does history make us? Do we shape the world, or are we just shaped by it? The question of do we have agency in our lives or whether we are just passive victims of events is, I think, a great question, and one that I have always tried to ask.

Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.