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

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

Literature helps us transcend ourselves.

- 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.

- Mohsin Hamid

She was struggling against a current that brought her inside herself.

- 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.

- Mohsin Hamid

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

- 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 …

- Mohsin Hamid