I wear my dad's cross. It's very important to me. I hang it in my locker before each game.
The secret of a happy life is respect. Respect for yourself and respect for others.
I feel like one of the things that is central to American life is the religious experience, and I think that the experience of being Muslim in America is as valid and as important a perspective on the religious experience of America as evangelical Christianity or Judaism - whatever it may be.
Sooner or later we've all got to confront the reality that we have got to come to understand who we are and what we're doing, and the extent to which we are guided or manipulated by forces that are beyond our control.
I think of myself as a narrative artist. I don't think of myself as a novelist or screenwriter or playwright. All of those modalities of processing and experiencing narrative are obviously very different, and I'm not sure that I prefer any one to the other. I think the novel gives you the opportunity to have a kind of interiority that you can't have in the theater, which is pure exteriority.
I feel like that religions generally ask the biggest questions. They may not always have the best answers, but they're the zone of human activity that regularly asks the biggest questions.
Religion has been an important part of my understanding, my inquiry into what it means to be human.
Thank you 'adults who wear back packs' for letting me know that I don't have to take you seriously
many of us are done with adolescence before we are done with adolescent love.
Let everything be allowed to do what it naturally does, so that its nature will be satisfied.
And I plan to write a sequel to Dragon Rider.