To have arrived at the truth means that one no longer fears death. For death and truth are similar in that they both require a great courage if one wishes to face them.

To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction.

Women are half the society. You cannot have a revolution without women. You cannot have democracy without women. You cannot have equality without women. You can't have anything without women.

Danger has been a part of my life ever since I picked up a pen and wrote. Nothing is more perilous than truth in a world that lies.

She is free to do what she wants, and free not to do it.

When we live in a world that is very unjust, you have to be a dissident.

Solidarity between women can be a powerful force of change, and can influence future development in ways favourable not only to women but also to men.

All the men I did get to know, every single man of them, has filled me with but one desire: to lift my hand and bring it smashing down on his face.

If you are creative, you must be dissident.

To me, 'beauty' means to be natural, creative, honest - to say the truth.

Everybody has to die, Firdaus. I will die, and you will die. The important thing is how to live until you die.

I feel that a book is never written by the writer aloneit's written by him and everyone around him be it directly or indirectly

When you find love you will know. It will be the one thing worth waiting for.

I'd got very successful, everyone knew who I was, but I felt very empty.

There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive.

Without a doubt, Ozzy is the craziest person I've ever met. Son of Sam is a close second.

A lot of blood, sweat, and tears have gone into this career of mine.

... humans have such a need to break everything down into right and wrong. It never occurs to you that you've made those labels up to help you define the material-and your Self.

What is required is not a lot words, but effectual ones.

I am not the man I once was. I do not want to go back in time, to be the second son, the second man.

The single most important decision in evaluating a business is pricing power.