“A single 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... I recognized that i...”

“But since the subsequent US invasion of Afghanistan, terrorists have killed many times that number of people in Pakistan. Tens of thousands have died here in terror and counterterror violence, slai...”

“Human beings dont necessarily exist inside of (or correspond to) the neat racial, gendered or national boxes into which we often unthinkingly place them.Its a mistake to ask literature to reinforce...”

“What happens is my mind starts to go in circles, thinking and thinking, and then I can't sleep. And once a couple of days go by, if you haven't slept, you start to get sick. You can't eat. You star...”

“Our relationship could now thrive only in my head, and to discuss it with a mother intentadmittedly in my own best intereston challenging it with reality might do it irreparable harm.”

“...status, as in any traditional, class-conscious society, declines more slowly than wealth.”

“Gravity is a contributing factor in nearly 73 percent of all accidents involving falling objects. ”

“Marriage has affected the laws of gravity. We will now revolve around each other. You will exert gravity on me, and I will exert gravity on you. We are one another's moons. You are holding onto my ...”

“Magic is the fifth fundamental force and is even more mysterious than gravity, which is really saying something.”

“There is something relentless about the serenity of nature which has a crushing effect on the human mind. The lavish splendour of her phases, which completely ignores human strife, fills the race o...”

“Almost every day I can feel myself suffering mainly in the head, I can explain the pain to myself but knowing it comes from an inflammation of my imagination doesn't prevent it being reality itself...”

“I guess in this culture of ever-shortening attention spans, it's good if a song can lift us out of the madness, even if only for a few minutes.”

“Saturday night is perfect for writers because other people have "plans.”

“Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.”

“I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”