“I believe that through its rational evaluation of truth and indifference to personal belief, science transcends religious and political divisions and so does bind us into a greater, more resilient whole.”

Instead, a faint mist of light will fall for eternity through an ever colder and quieter cosmos.

From the beginning, I wanted to make dance music with a human element to it.

Writing for the stage is different from writing for a book. You want to write in a way that an actor has material to work with, writing in the first person not the third person, and pulling out the dramatic elements in a bigger way for a stage presentation.

There are perhaps opportunities for greater political cooperation, at least more cooperation than exists now.

Behind every political deal in this country, the first casualties are always the ordinary people, who are barely treated as human.

Pashtun nationalism is reasserting itself. Its political history spans several hundred years.

The public one and the secret one, and you can dictate a sentence prepared by the political and security apparatuses that are behind this trial.

The new nation called Nigeria should be an estate of our great-grandfather, Uthman Dan Fodio.

The Pashtuns feel discriminated against by the Americans because they supported the Taliban and the war is still going on in their region with continued U.S. bombing.

Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.

We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference.