I felt suddenly very young - or perhaps I felt my age.
Civilizations are illusions, but these illusions are pervasive, dangerous, and powerful. They contribute to globalization’s brutality. They allow us, for example, to say that we believe in global free...
But what you do sense, what is unmistakable, is a rising tide of frustration and anger and violence, born partly of the greater familiarity the poor today have with the rich, their faces pressed to th...
America is our enemy; America should give us more aid.
With towels so plush and fine that when she at last emerged she felt like a princess using them, or at least like the daughter of a dictator who was willing to kill without mercy in order for his chil...
If he understood, at some level, that to love is to enter into the inevitability of one day not being able to protect what is most valuable to you.
Even if he understood, at some level, that to love is to enter into the inevitability of one day not being able to protect what is most valuable to you.
She had bumped me out of the center of my world. I’d become a baby person, and it felt good, better than what had come before.
Saeed and Nadia knew what the buildup to conflict felt like, and so the feeling that hung over London in those days was not new to them, and they faced it not with bravery, exactly, and not with panic...
People often ask me if I am the book’s Pakistani protagonist. I wonder why they never ask if I am his American listener. After all, a novel can often be a divided man’s conversation with himself.
Ozi made me feel so known. He made love to my insides, filling desperate gaps and calming unbearably sensitive places.
If you have ever, sir, been through a breakup of a romantic relationship that involved great love, you will perhaps understand what I experienced. There is in such situations usually a moment of passi...
I tried not to dwell on the comparison; it was one thing to accept that New York was more wealthy than Lahore, but quite another to swallow the fact that Manila was as well.
E così, qualunque fosse la ragione, quella volta la moderazione ebbe la meglio, e l'audacia, perché ci vuole coraggio a non attaccare quando si ha paura
But in his devotions was ever more devotion, and towards her it seemed there was ever less.
But his dislike was so obvious, so intimate, that it got under my skin.
But I must admit that my motives were no entirely noble; there were in me at least some elements of the anger and hurt vanity that characterize a spurned lover, and these unworthy sentiments helped me...
With cities as with life, for one moment we are pottering about our errands as usual and the next we are dying, and our eternally impending ending does not put a stop to our transient beginnings and m...
When we migrate, we murder from our lives those we leave behind.
We learned to savor the denial of gratification—that most un-American of pleasures!—