That to love is to enter into the inevitability of one day not being able to protect what is most valuable to you.
Our eternally impending ending does not put a stop to our transient beginnings and middles until the instant when it does.
For personalities are not a single immutable colour, like white or blue, but rather illuminated screens, and the shades we reflect depend much on what is around us.
Ambitious cleric position: Religion makes us all equal; only I decide what religion says.
A beautiful memory one knows has already commenced to fade. •
You learn a lot about your man when you become the mother of his child.
When he prayed he touched his parents, who could not otherwise be touched, and he touched a feeling that we are all children who lose our parents, all of us, every man and woman and boy and girl, and...
What distinguishes the war on terror is that it is a war against a concept, not a nation. And the enemy concept, it seems to me, is pluralism.
We need language. We need language to tell stories. We need stories to create a self. We need a self because the complexity of the chemical processes that make up our individual humanities exceeds the...
Islam is not a race, yet Islamophobia partakes of racist characteristics.
Indeed, all books, each and every book ever written, could be said to be said to be offered to the reader as a form of self-help. Textbooks, those whores, as particularly explicit in acknowledging thi...
In this group, everyone was foreign, and so, in a sense, no one was.
I found it ironic; children and the elderly were meant to be sent away from impending battles, but in our case it was the fittest and brightest who were leaving, those who in the past would have been...
I could not respect how he functioned so completely immersed in the structures of his professional micro-universe. Yes, I too had previously derived comfort from my firm's exhortations to focus intens...
Glaring is something we men of Lahore take seriously...
But while fear was part of what kept them together for those first few months in Marin, more powerful than fear was the desire that each see the other find firmer footing before they let go, and thus...
But when you read a book, what you see are black squiggles on pulped wood or, increasingly, dark pixels on a pale screen. To transform these icons into characters and events, you must imagine. And whe...
Although I proudly admit to being a robber (attaching as I do a certain prestige to my calling), I must make it quite clear, so clear that there is no room for doubt, that I am not a murderer. And whi...
Like Pakistan, America is, after all, a former English colony...
But I would suggest that it is instead our solitude that most disturb us, the fact that we are all but alone despite being in the heart of a city.