The mobile phone is very dangerous. If you're walking and looking at your phone, you're not walking - you're surfing the internet.

Childbirth changed my perception of my wife. She was now the bloodied special forces soldier who had fought and risked everything for our family.

Islam is not a race, yet Islamophobia partakes of racist characteristics.

Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.

It seems an obvious thing to say, but you should not imagine that we Pakistanis are all potential terrorists, just as we should not imagine that you Americans are all undercover assassins.

I think sometimes feeling that you've been marginalized opens you up to the realization that, in their own lives, almost everyone experiences marginalization, a kind of foreigner sense.

All human stories are migration stories because everyone is a refugee from their own childhood.

Time only moves in one direction. Remember that. Things always change.

I think massive migration is inevitable. As sea levels rise, as climate change happens, as fertile fields become arid, as wars are fought, people are going to move. They always have.

When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain.

It's important to have a non-nostalgic view and say, let's look forward, because if we don't, all we'll hear are voices telling us to go back.

Incidentally, it’s easy to write prescriptions, but difficult to come to an understanding with people.

In India, the poverty is so vast that the state cannot control it. It can beat people, but it can't prevent the poor from flooding the roads, the cities, the parks and railway station platforms.

Fate laughs at probabilities.

You want to finish something when it's good. You don't want to be the last one at the party!

A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise... Because this is how life is full of surprises.

The live concerts are still one of the two greatest joys of my life.

I definitely would like to do something serious. Not like a love story, but serious like maybe a gangster or a mobster. A gang or a mob movie would be great.

I don't want enlightenment, I want him. Sorry Buddha, I loved him more than you.

Connoisseurs think the art is already done.

Water is best, but gold shines like fire blazing in the night, supreme of lordly wealth.