347 Quotes by Mohsin Hamid

Our civilizations do not cause us to clash. No, our clashing allows us to pretend we belong to civilizations.

The privileged liberal position: “There should be equal rights for all; I should not have to share my riches with the poor.

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.

Young men pray for different things, of course, but some young men pray to honour the goodness of the men who raised them, and Saeed was very much a young man of this mould.

You learn a lot about your man when you become the mother of his child.

Chance plays a powerful role in every life – our brains and personalities are just chemical soup, after all; a few drops here or there matter enormously – but consequences often become more serious as income levels go down.

It is not surprising that most Pakistanis do not support America’s bombardment of Afghanistan. The Afghans are neighbours on the brink of starvation and devastated by war. America has shown itself to be untrustworthy, a superpower that uses its values as a scabbard for its sword.

Migration isn't a one-directional process; it's a colossal process that has been happening in all directions for thousands of years.

I personally tend to believe that there is a right to migration, the same way there's a right to love whom you like and to believe what you believe and to say what you want to say.