I actually feel that personal matters, like religion and spirituality, are things that I really discuss only with intimates. I think it's, in a way, like sexuality, something where it touches upon something very private.
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. - Mohsin Hamid
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.
- Mohsin Hamid
All human stories are migration stories because everyone is a refugee from their own childhood. - Mohsin Hamid
All human stories are migration stories because everyone is a refugee from their own childhood.
Love is transient even on a very personal level. We lose everyone that we love. Sometimes we drift apart and sometimes we die. - Mohsin Hamid
Love is transient even on a very personal level. We lose everyone that we love. Sometimes we drift apart and sometimes we die.
I think there's a natural link between the fact that our self is a story that we make up and that we're drawn to stories. It resonates, in a way. - Mohsin Hamid
I think there's a natural link between the fact that our self is a story that we make up and that we're drawn to stories. It resonates, in a way.
She was struggling against a current that brought her inside herself. - Mohsin Hamid
She was struggling against a current that brought her inside herself.
Literature helps us transcend ourselves. - Mohsin Hamid
Literature helps us transcend ourselves.
The mobile phone is very dangerous. If you're walking and looking at your phone, you're not walking - you're surfing the internet. - Mohsin Hamid
The mobile phone is very dangerous. If you're walking and looking at your phone, you're not walking - you're surfing the internet.
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 … - Mohsin Hamid
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 …
Time only moves in one direction. Remember that. Things always change. - Mohsin Hamid
Time only moves in one direction. Remember that. Things always change.
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