I think that people are going to move. They always have and that's going to continue. The question is, how are we going to deal with it? Mohsin Hamid More Quotes by Mohsin Hamid More Quotes From Mohsin Hamid My earliest memories are of watching Star Trek and MASH while my parents barbecued chicken in the back yard. I was an American kid, through and through. Mohsin Hamid starsmemorieskids I think there's really strong social stratification in South Asia. Mohsin Hamid asiastrongthinking A reader should encounter themselves in a novel, I think. Mohsin Hamid encountersshouldthinking We need a self because the complexity of the chemical processes that make up our individual humanities exceeds the processing power of our brains. Mohsin Hamid humanityselfbrain Childbirth changed my perception of my wife. She was now the bloodied special forces soldier who had fought and risked everything for our family. Mohsin Hamid wifeperceptionsoldier America's strength has made it a sort of Gulliver in world affairs: By wiggling its toes it can, often inadvertently, break the arm of a Lilliputian. Mohsin Hamid armsamericaworld I don't know if I'm truly at home in any language. Mohsin Hamid languageifshome The world seems concerned with Pakistan primarily as an actor in global attempts to combat terrorism. Mohsin Hamid pakistanactorsworld What used to help us to cope with transience was stuff like, extended families all living in one place, or very strong religious beliefs, or a tribe that would outlive you. That stuff is getting weaker. Mohsin Hamid strongreligiousstuff Pakistan hasn't been cast in the role of... interesting cultural place or, you know, land of great comedians. Mohsin Hamid comedianlandinteresting Oftentimes I deliberately put ambiguity into my books so that... the reader is left with an echo of: 'How much of this was from me?' Mohsin Hamid ambiguityechoesbook I'd rather create a miniature painting than a Taj Mahal of a book. Mohsin Hamid taj-mahalpaintingbook Transience is what is normal. The problem is that we are busily trying to create political structures and cultural expressions that deny that and to deny that is to deny the basic idea of what is human. Mohsin Hamid politicalexpressionideas If your sense of self is destabilised, to imagine being another becomes pretty easy. Mohsin Hamid imagineselfeasy I was 30 when 9/11 happened and I had lived exactly 15 years of life in America, so I was half American. I was a full-fledged New Yorker. Mohsin Hamid halfamericayears Islam is not a race, yet Islamophobia partakes of racist characteristics. Mohsin Hamid racistislamrace We're being subject to incredible amounts of surveillance, the police are taking on draconian powers and violating our rights. I think this attempt to protect ourselves is ultimately going to founder because people don't like living inside prisons. Mohsin Hamid rightspeoplethinking I'm not sure if guys are supposed to read Vanity Fair. I feel very metrosexual with it but am not sure it's in my comfort zone. Mohsin Hamid vanityguycomfort If differences can be hidden, perhaps they aren't differences at all. Mohsin Hamid differencesifs Sufi poetry is, in a sense, self-help poetry about how to live a decent life, how to deal with your mortality. Mohsin Hamid sufiselfhelping
