I cried sobbingly until at last those visions reeking with blood came to comfort me. And then I surrendered myself to them, to those deplorably brutal visions, my most intimate friends.

Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.

True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.

Nobody even imagines how well one can lie about the state of one’s own heart.

Young people get the foolish idea that what is new for them must be new for everybody else too. No matter how unconventional they get, they're just repeating what others before them have done.

Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.

The special quality of hell is to see everything clearly down to the last detail.

By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth.

For an artist to do creative work, he needs at once physical health and some physiomental ill health. He needs both serenity and gloom.

Anything can become excusable when seen from the standpoint of the result

As long as you know I am waiting, take your time flowers of the spring.

My goal was to be able to be alone without food, sugar, phone, men, TV, anything and to feel O.K. about myself.

Philosophy is the product of wonder.

Separate the desire to be thin from the desire to be cherished.

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

I've been more content with just who I am.

I thought of America as this crazy, happy, exciting place where everybody's rich and there's stuff everywhere. Compared to Pakistan, it's not untrue.

I believe in the directorial point of view and directorial choices.

Life is too short to do anything that's not challenging.

The medium is not the message - the message is the message.

Discipline enabled Heaven to be filled with light; discipline enabled the angels to be immaculate and holy.