Care Quote by Mohsin Hamid

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

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

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

“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

“muscularity, made more pronounced by her gauntness, and the near-inanimate”

— Mohsin Hamid

“In this group, everyone was foreign, and so, in a sense, no one was.”

— Mohsin Hamid

“It seemed to me then - and to be honest, sir, seems to me still - that America was engaged only in posturing. As…

— Mohsin Hamid

When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain.

— Mohsin Hamid

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

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

“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

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