We are Muslims. My father would pawn off his Muslim in-laws as Hindus just so that he could get free pancakes.

If you don't acknowledge differences, it's as bad as stereotyping or reducing someone.

Indian culture is essentially much more of a we culture. It's a communal culture where you do what's best for the community - you procreate.

Voter fraud does just barely exist, while racism, according to the Supreme Court, is a thing of the past.

If you choose to be a Muslim then you believe that it is on some level wrong to show the image of the Prophet Muhammad.

I thought [when I was 16] my days were just going to be spent hanging out on a beach and my girlfriend was going to be Miss Teen USA and my best friend will be a dolphin.

I've always said I'm the worst representative of Muslim-Americans that's ever existed, because I've been inside more bars than mosques.

When you're brown and Indian, you get offered a lot of doctor roles.

People lament that there's no roles being written for South Asian or Muslim characters. But their parents don't want their children to go into the entertainment field. You don't get it both ways.

It's an organic thing that I try not to analyze too much, because I worry that it will go away.

England has an interesting relationship with the Indian subcontinent because the years of colonization and the history between the two places.

A bottomless pit of violence, a Tower of Babel where all are speakers and no hearers.

Weddings and funerals are when you figure out who your real friends are.

The most I would do was use the shadow tool in Photoshop to bring out the muscular rips in my stomach, which were honestly there. Beneath the fat.

I care about the diversity of the mindset of the people creating our future, and the windows through which we see it, and the tools we use to build it.

The parts of the universe ... all are connected with each other in such a way that I think it to be impossible to understand any one without the whole.

Judge [Samuel] Alito enjoys the support and respect of the people who work with him, practice with him and, therefore, know him best.

That little touch is not in the books, but I wish it had been in the books because it was a great addition.

It doesn't matter to me where Barack Obama goes. If he wants to go to Hawaii because it's his home state, fine! Hunky-dory. Plastic banana, good-time rock 'n' roller dittos.

Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.

Sometimes a man and a woman reach a crossroads and linger there, reluctant to take either way, knowing the wrong choice will mean the end... and knowing there’s so much worth saving.