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

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.

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.

How does it secure the blessings of liberty to our posterity, to those generations yet unborn, to kill them, aborting them in the womb?

If you buy a man who is half dead, everybody may be happy off the field, but on the field you'll have major problems

When I multiply numbers together, I see two shapes. The image starts to change and evolve, and a third shape emerges. That's the answer. It's mental imagery. It's like maths without having to think.

God loves you as do I and no matter what physical characteristics that differ from each and every one of us, we are but one family under the heavens.

Determine who you are and what your brand is, and what youre not. The rest of it is just a lot of noise.

I'm not taking any interest in politics. I'm not involved in politics in any way. My life is in writing now.

I quite fancy Graham Coxon. I haven't met him yet, though. I'd like to.

As soon as we become one with the ocean in the shape of God, there is no more rest for us, nor indeed do we need rest any longer.

What the American Indian Movement says is that the American Indians are the Palestinians of the United States, and the Palestinians are the American Indians of Europe.

Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.