“When I am experiencing a complex story or novel, the broader planes, a...” — Jhumpa Lahiri Quote

“When I am experiencing a complex story or novel, the broader planes, and also details, tend to fall away.”

“I speak English. I grew up speaking Bengali. This is the normal, the known, the obvious composition of who I am. Then there's Italian, this strange, other component of me that I've just created. It was a creative process just to learn the language, never mind to start expressing myself in it.”

“A lot of my personality was informed by feeling very different in the world I grew up in, feeling that I didn't fully belong, that my parents didn't belong.”

“Is Wall Street the rightful master of our economic fate? Or should we choose a broader form of sovereignty?”

“I think net neutrality needs to be explored in a broader sense.”

“I am quite international. My background, born in Turkey. My family is a Jewish family from Iran, so I went from Turkey to Iran to Israel, and then grew up in Italy and ended up in U.S. for graduate school. So I tend to look at things from an international perspective, and I think that gives you a little bit of a broader view of what's going on.”