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 ?

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

...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.

Today wouldn't have happened if histories weren't falsified.

You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.

Who you are as a person far outweighs what you do in an athletic arena.

I set my monkey on the log, and ordered him to do the Dog. He wagged his tail and shook his head, and he went and did the Cat instead.

That's a journey I've been on for many years. I mean, being a working mother, realizing that I have to make and find my balance.

I wanted to convey the message to children that this life is worth living.

When life sucks, throw yourself into art.

Being a part-time pop star was perfect, really, when I wasn't worn out by the partying.

I've always just had a great feeling for London and British people.

The superstition that the hounds of truth will rout the vermin of error seems, like a fragment of Victorian lace, quaint, but too brittle to be lifted out of the showcase.