“I've always felt a connection to kids who go to church. I think I'm fundamentally a religiously oriented and religiously minded person. It's very easy for me to communicate with people who have that same grounding, that same vocabulary or modality of thinking and expressing themselves.” PeopleThinkingKidsEasyChurchCommunicate Author:Ayad Akhtar
“I think there is a lot of continuity between the Jewish and the Islamic traditions. We know this historically, though people don't want to talk about that - especially Muslims. There is a common source for both Judaism and Islam, or let's say that Islam finds its source in Judaism. The commonalities of practice and sensibility, ethos and mythos, create a lot of overlap.” PeopleThinkingCommonTraditionIslamIslamicSensibilityJudaismCommonality Author:Ayad Akhtar
“I think that literary forms are losing their capacity to connect people to issues, to the experiences that feel most meaningful to them.” PeopleThinkingLosingMeaningful Author:Ayad Akhtar
