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 ?

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

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.

We have waited long. Learn who to trust. It is heart that knows truth. Don't close eyes and wait for path to choose you. Choose path and follow it.

Children do not find fault with their parents until later. In the beginning, the love you get is the love that sets.

Plato worries our thinking might become too reflexive and comfortable with itself.

You can't possibly know that you're going to be a writer!" Miss Frost said. "It's not a career choice.

All mothers are rivers and all rivers, mothers.

The late Tom Wicker's biography of Nixon, called 'One of Us, ' is really quite good: you see the biographer discovering dimensions of sympathy for his subject that he hadn't expected to feel.

Find the goddess inside yourself instead of looking for the god in someone else.

How wonderful, how miraculous, all beings, but all beings, are fully endowed with the wisdom and power of the Tathagat. But, sadly, human beings, due to sticky attachments, are not aware of it

Who would name their kid Jack with the last words 'off' at the end of the last name? No wonder that guy is screwed up.

Most people say I look mean, and because I play so many tough roles and because of my size and my martial arts background, they think I am, but I'm really not.