There are no innocent people in a guilty nation.

- Nadeem Aslam

Pakistan produces people of extraordinary bravery. But no nation should ever require its citizens to be that brave.

- Nadeem Aslam

The bullet that has hit us Muslims today left the gun centuries ago when we let the clergy decide that knowledge and education were not important.

- Nadeem Aslam

To visit certain streets was to realise that only the sky remained unchanged there.

- Nadeem Aslam

There is nothing that torments Satan more than the sight of a faithful in prayer.

- Nadeem Aslam

Love was the result of having caught a glimpse of another's loneliness.

- Nadeem Aslam

Paper is the strongest material in the world. Things under which a mountain will crumble, you can place on paper and it will hold: beauty at its most…

- Nadeem Aslam

All great artists know that part of their task is to light up the distance between two human beings.

- Nadeem Aslam

How keen everyone is to make this world their home forgetting its impermanence It's like trying to see and name constellations in a fireworks display.

- Nadeem Aslam