“Violent cities, people who live in violent cities, find a way - as New...” — Mohsin Hamid Quote

“Violent cities, people who live in violent cities, find a way - as New Yorkers did 30 or 40 years ago - they find a way to just carry on. But you're stressed out. You're worried, you know.”

“I think that there is a degree of petulance around President Trump and also a degree of sort of blundering incompetence, which is unlike most businesspeople.”

“I take six or seven years to write really small books. There is a kind of aesthetic of leanness, of brevity.”

“It's not easy to have success with restaurants in different cities, but I like the challenge.”

“People going into the cities for the opportunities and the towns are getting older, no young people.”

“Like most dictators, Col Gaddafi detests the metropolis. His vision of Libya is a kind of Bedouin romantic medievalism, suspicious of universities, theatres, galleries and cafes, and so monitors the cities' inhabitants with paranoid suspicion.”