Why the brevity? Because I'd rather people read my book twice than only half-way through

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.

The story of your past doesn’t have to become the story of your life.

All approaches to a study or an individual may start with a desire for attention. However they start, they must never end up in this manner.

I'm suspicious of any mode of transportation that requires a running start.

One of the problems with expertise is that people have it in some domains and not in others.

Whatever it took to help Taiwan defend theirself.

But as soon as we got that higher speed access to the home there?s going to be a tremendous crunch on the backbones for a much higher speed bandwidth. People really ought to be planning for that.

Love was a rare thing, easily confused with a million other things, and if anybody knew this to be true it was him.

It is not in the least likely that any life has ever been lived which was not a failure in the secret judgment of the person who lived it.

There are no answers, only cross references.

True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to 'principles,' and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.