Ayad Akhtar Quotes
- The secret of a happy life is respect. Respect for yourself and respect for others.
- In my early 30s, I started to realise I was avoiding something on a personal level, but also as a writer. I was in denial…
- I see the American experience as being defined by the immigrant paradigm of rupture and renewal: rupture with the old world, the old ways, and…
- I consider myself to have been formed by a lot of the locutions and aesthetics and principles of the Muslim way of life, and those…
- Religion has been an important part of my understanding, my inquiry into what it means to be human.
- I feel like one of the things that is central to American life is the religious experience, and I think that the experience of being…
- I started to understand that for me, art was no longer about self-expression but about creative engagement with the world. I started to respond in…