I see the American experience as being defined by the immigrant paradigm of rupture and renewal: rupture with the old world, the old ways, and renewal of the self in a bright but difficult New World.

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.

It's a funny old world.

In a time of transition for journalism all around the world, it's reassuring to know that some of the old ways endure.

If we're not on them, they go back to their old ways.

It was a brave old world.