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.

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

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.

We are saved by the sanctification of the Spirit and by faith in the truth of Christ Jesus, Son of God.

Most of the people that doubt other people's dreams do so because they don't even believe in their own dreams.

They were good parents. The worst thing they ever did to us was die.

You had better not open that door.

Verence would rather cut his own leg off than put a witch in prison, since it'd save trouble in the long run and probably be less painful.

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury.

Pole dancing really isn't as easy as it looks.

If I didn't care about doing right and didn't feel uncomfortable doing wrong, I should get on capitally.

There's nothing like walking onto a Hollywood sound stage.

The simultaneous existence of opposite virtues in the soul like pincers to catch hold of God.