Over time, our inescapable, systemic, fundamentally human impurity gives us the capacity to do what has not been done before: to make creative leaps in our biology, in the diseases we can resist and the foods we can digest. And in our thinking and culture and politics, too. Mohsin Hamid Read Quote
Which is stronger, politics or love?’ is like asking, ‘Which is stronger, exhaling or inhaling?’ They are two sides of the same thing. Mohsin Hamid Read Quote
Nothing good gets written without the writer suffering along the way, in my opinion. Writing should be a pleasure, but unless you feel almost broken many, many times in the journey to a novel, you haven’t pushed yourself hard enough. Mohsin Hamid Read Quote
If your sense of self is destabilised, to imagine being another becomes pretty easy. Mohsin Hamid Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Migration isn’t a one-directional process; it’s a colossal process that has been happening in all directions for thousands of years. Mohsin Hamid Read Quote
Love places someone else in the centre of your being and your own self is blurred. Mohsin Hamid Read Quote
