Transience is what is normal. The problem is that we are busily trying to create political structures and cultural expressions that deny… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
It is remarkable indeed how we human beings are capable of delighting in the mating call of a flower while we are… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
The notion of love as a potentially destructive and potentially redemptive human force is something that comes across in all my books. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
All human stories are migration stories because everyone is a refugee from their own childhood. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
We think of the romance novel as a lesser form of literature, but I don't think that's true. Love is a very… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
There really still is a deep wound, you know, in the collective psyche of Pakistan. And the violence has left enormous human… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I think that we live in a world - and this is something which living in Pakistan, perhaps, has taught me -… — 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
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 time we… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“muscularity, made more pronounced by her gauntness, and the near-inanimate” — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“In this group, everyone was foreign, and so, in a sense, no one was.” — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“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 Image
When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
