You think people never say what they mean. The truth is, nine times out of ten what they say is all they mean. - Zia Haider Rahman
Then, as now, I believe that the English use language to hide what they mean. - Zia Haider Rahman
Everything new is on the rim of our view, in the darkness, below the horizon, so that nothing new is visible but in the light of what we know. - Zia Haider Rahman
It is no consolation to reflect that every cause itself is an effect, making the search for causes and reasons a fool’s errand. - Zia Haider Rahman
Our choices are made, our will flexed, in the teeth of events that overwhelm us and devour us. - Zia Haider Rahman
That’s another argument for writing: making something that outlasts you. - Zia Haider Rahman
Since when did books ever solve anything? They only raise more questions than they answer, otherwise they’re just fucking entertainment, and I am not here to fucking entertain you. - Zia Haider Rahman
No sight better expresses the politics of aid, the dynamics of the West and the developing countries, than the image of children, happy or in need. - Zia Haider Rahman
When evil enters the world, do you think it comes with horns and cloven feet, billowing some foul stench? - Zia Haider Rahman