He was a man who discovered love through his penis.
America's strength has made it a sort of Gulliver in world affairs: By wiggling its toes it can, often inadvertently, break the arm of a Lilliputian.
You are a door to an existence she does not desire, but even if the room beyond is repugnant, that door has won a portion of her affection.
Our civilizations do not cause us to clash. No, our clashing allows us to pretend we belong to civilizations.
If differences can be hidden, perhaps there aren't differences at all
For we were not always burdened by debt, dependent on foreign aid and handouts; in the stories we tell of ourselves we were not the crazed and destitute radicals you see on your television channels bu...
And all sorts of strange people were around, people who looked more at home than she was, even the homeless ones who spoke no English, more at home maybe because they were younger, and when she went o...
I think there's a growing courage among the younger generation of American writers. Because of the more superficial treatment of characters taking place in cinema, they have had to deal with that by d...
I read it over and over again, until I notice the paper getting wet, the ink blurring into little flowers.
Four thousand years ago, we, the people of the Indus River basin, had cities that were laid out on grids and boasted underground sewers, while the ancestors of those who would invade and colonize Amer...
Television has given Pakistan a truly open national forum for the first time in its history. Ideas are debated, leaders are assessed and criticised, and a nation of 170 million people is finally disco...
When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain.
What did I think of Princeton? Well, the answer to that question requires a story. When I first arrived, I looked around me at the Gothic buildings — younger, I later learned, than many of the mosques...
Some of my relatives held on to imagined memories the way homeless people hold onto lottery tickets. Nostalgia was their crack cocaine, if you will, and my childhood was littered with the consequences...
Our relationship could now thrive only in my head, and to discuss it with a mother intent—admittedly in my own best interest—on challenging it with reality might do it irreparable harm.
It seemed to me then - and to be honest, sir, seems to me still - that America was engaged only in posturing. As a society, you were unwilling to reflect upon the shared pain that united you with thos...
It has been said that depression is a failure to imagine a plausible desirable future for oneself,
A common strand appeared to unite these conflicts, and that was the advancement of a small coterie’s concept of American interests in the guise of the fight against terrorism, which was defined to ref...
Muscularity, made more pronounced by her gauntness, and the near-inanimate
You're never rude,' she said, smiling, 'and I think it's good to be touchy sometimes. It means you care.