347 Quotes by Mohsin Hamid

Pakistan hasn't been cast in the role of... interesting cultural place or, you know, land of great comedians.

Literature helps us transcend ourselves.

If your sense of self is destabilised, to imagine being another becomes pretty easy.

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.

I think there's really strong social stratification in South Asia.

Lived religion is a very different thing from strict textual analysis. Very few people of any faith live their lives as literalist interpretations of scripture.

When terrorism strikes, divisive anger is a natural response.

Yes, Manila had its slums; one saw them on the drive from the airport: vast districts of men in dirty white undershirts lounging idly in front of auto-repair shops - like a poorer version of the 1950s America depicted in such films as Grease.

Time is our most precious currency. So it's significant that we are being encouraged, wherever possible, to think of our attention not as expenditure but as consumption. This blurring of labor and entertainment forms the basis, for example, of the financial alchemy that conjures deca-billion-dollar valuations for social-networking companies.