I feel like I am always the one tearing everything up and forever sewing it back together.

If you find my stories dirty, the society you are living in is dirty. With my stories, I only expose the truth

If a man has to make a woman the center of his love, why should he integrate animality into this sacred human emotion?...Is love incompelete without it?...Is love the name of physical excersize ?

...and it is also possible, that Saadat Hasan dies, but Manto remains alive.

Some people kiss as if they were eating watermelon

I wondered why people consider escapism so bad, even the escapism on display right then. At first it might appear unseemly, but in the end its lack of pretension gives it its own sort of beauty.

When Hamid dropped Lata off at her house at nine that night, he felt hollow. The touch of her soft body was sheared from him like bark from a tree, and he spent the entire night tossing and turning.

You'll have to outfly the west wind to catch me.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Let me encourage you to get up every day and focus on what you do have in life. Be thankful for the blessings of the little things, even when you don't get what you expect.

I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported.

Sometimes the worst thing you can do, personally, is the best thing you can do, professionally.

I love not having to rely on anyone.

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

I don't think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather, I believe it indispensable to talent, if for nothing else than to increase the talent.

I love working on 'Glee,' and I hope that there are more and more parts for me and other actors with Down syndrome in television and in movies so I can keep working for a long, long time.

You know, people at Wal-Mart are standing there with their uniforms on. I feel like I'm putting on a uniform to do a movie. I don't feel like it's dressing in drag.