“...depression is a failure to imagine a plausible desirable future for oneself” — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Time only moves in one direction. Remember that. Things always change. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
We are each of us composed of atoms, but equally, we are composed by time. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
We're all united in this, that every human being migrates through time, that the place we grew up in in our childhood… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Pakistan now is like a horror film franchise. You know, it's 'Friday the 13th, Episode 63: The Terrorist from Pakistan.' And each… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
We need to start imagining the future or it will get imagined for us, and the ways that it has been imagined… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
When we aren't collectively imagining hopeful futures, then the way things are going almost invariably seems negative and frightening. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Stories helped me unite parts of my existence that might otherwise have seemed irrevocably split by geography and time. And stories helped… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“For there was a moment when anything was possible. And there will be a moment when nothing is possible. But in between… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“In times of violence, there is always that first acquaintance or intimate of ours, who, when they are touched, makes what had… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I think the idea of migration through time is very important because every human being does that and it unites us with… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Television has given Pakistan a truly open national forum for the first time in its history. Ideas are debated, leaders are assessed… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“Every time a couple moves they begin, if their attention is still drawn to one another, to see each other differently, for… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“with cities as with life, for one moment we are pottering about our errands as usual and the next we are dying,… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“I met her eyes, and for the first time I perceived that there was something broken behind them, like a tiny crack… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Sometimes we are looking for somebody we can connect with on the basis of a shared past or a tradition or experience.… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
My grandparents used to pray five times a day, but they were quiet about their own thing. Completely liberal day by day;… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
When I'm really plugged in I find it difficult to write. It's like digging a well. If you make a void, something… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I think that when we take the long view, the notion that some people are deemed less worthy of being able to… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“There is in such situations usually a moment of passion during which the unthinkable is said; this is followed by a sense… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
In a world of intrusive technology, we must engage in a kind of struggle if we wish to sustain moments of solitude.… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
We are all refugees from our childhoods. And so we turn, among other things, to stories. To write a story, to read… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“Once as Nadia sat on the steps of a building reading the news on her phone across the street from a detachment… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“Cooking for him is a craft of spice and oil. His food burns the tongue and clogs the arteries. When he looks… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“Slowly, even though I thought it would never happen, New York lost its charm for me. I remember arriving in the city… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“and when she went out it seemed to her that she too had migrated, that everyone migrates, even if we stay in… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“There was also closeness, for the end of a couple is like a death, and the notion of death, of temporariness, can… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
The paralysis that we have right now when we think about migration is partly because we can't imagine what the world would… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Over time, our inescapable, systemic, fundamentally human impurity gives us the capacity to do what has not been done before: to make… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Many boys, probably most boys, have a first love before they fall in love with a woman. It begins the moment two… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
We recognise that, with time, every human being will cease being, will only have been. And so we seek to resist time.… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“but that is the way of things, with cities as with life, for one moment we are pottering about our errands as… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Given enough time, polar bears might migrate off the Arctic ice, evolve darker coats, find a different diet, and thrive in a… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I don't want to be anxious on my day-to-day life. I want to try to imagine a future I'd like to live… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Pakistan now is like a horror film franchise. You know, it's 'Friday the 13th, Episode 63: The Terrorist from Pakistan.' And each time we… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share
A beard is something that is almost like a mirror to the viewer. When someone sees you wearing a beard, they're seeing something in… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share
And also I think the rise of other, you could say, destinations for international jihadis mean that Pakistan isn't necessarily the place where people… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share
“I met her eyes, and for the first time I perceived that there was something broken behind them, like a tiny crack in a… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share
“muscularity, made more pronounced by her gauntness, and the near-inanimate” — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share
“It seemed to me then - and to be honest, sir, seems to me still - that America was engaged only in posturing. As… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share
When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share
When the machine of a human being is turned on, it seems to produce a protagonist, just as a television produces an image. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share
I think fiction allows you to inhabit new domains and it's you, the reader living in that domain for a few days that results… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share
“Often, during my stay in your country, such comparisons troubled me. In fact, they did more than trouble me: they made me resentful. Four… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share
Americans need to educate themselves, from elementary school onward, about what their country has done abroad. And they need to play a more active… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share
I'm not a representative of Pakistan; I'm just an example that Pakistanis are different from each other. I believe it in my fiction and… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share
“end of a couple is like a death, and the notion of death, of temporariness, can remind us of the value of things,” — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share
NYC doesn't have a big sign saying "You must love diversity and the rights of all people." And that's not what makes you love… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share
