For me, insomnia was something ordinary, and it came and went for ordinary reasons.

Muslims are ordinary members of the working public, just like you.

'Butterfly Mosque' came out of the emails I wrote to family and friends back home after moving to Egypt.

The script for what would eventually become my first graphic novel, 'Cairo,' sort of came to me in kind of a bolt of lightning within 24 hours of having moved to that city. Just a jumble of characters and narratives and interesting things that I was seeing and experiencing for the first time.

We think of divinity as something infinitely big, but it is also infinitely small - the condensation of your breath on your palms, the ridges in your fingertips, the warm space between your shoulder and the shoulder next to you.

To me, writing an ongoing series feels like driving a freight train downhill. All you can do is steer and pray.