I found Bombay and opium, the drug and the city, the city of opium and the drug Bombay

My religion is no way of knowing me.

The world is on fire time is a bomb.Ten thousand years are not enoughWhen so much remains to be done

He read because it gave him instant gratification in a way nothing else did, and as was the case with all addicts, gratification was the important thing.

Nobody knows much about women, not even Freud, not even women themselves. But it's like electricity: you don't need to know how it works to get a shock on the fingers.

Solutions sometimes present themselves after a reset.

Before I started writing about food, my focus was really on the human relationship to plants. Not only do plants nourish us bodily - they nourish us psychologically.

I don't intentionally make my films with the express goal of surprising the viewer.

I didn't want to be an actress at all, or famous even. I certainly enjoy acting now, absolutely. Time will tell whether or not I enjoy fame.

Someone else's success is not your failure.

I'll always say my prayers...and if God doesn't answer them at once I shall know it's because He's planning something better for me.

This is real human drama, we're not creating some amusement park ride for the summer. Even though the movie is really exciting to watch, it's got a real pathos behind it.

Being an actress doesn't make you popular in school.

The histories of our two peoples, Palestinian and South African, correspond in such painful and poignant ways, that I intensely feel myself being at home amongst compatriots