Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can't forgive.
Rashid did not give in. Look how his hands move on the contols, he told her. In those worlds left-handedness does not impede him. Amazingly, he is almost ambidextrous. Soraya snorted with annoyance. H...
Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.
Mahound comes to me for revelation, asking me to choose between monotheist and henotheist alternatives, and I'm just some idiot actor having a bhaenchud nightmare, what the fuck do I know, yaar, what...
Life's bruises demythologise us all. The earth gapes.
I want more than what I want. (Vina Apsara)
Being God's postman is no fun, yar.
There's a lot of conflict and darkness inside everybody's family. We all pretend to outsiders that it's not so, but behind locked doors, there are usually high emotions running.
Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.
If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.
A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness second, their imagination, and third, their industry.
Peace broke out.
It was a rare thing to be granted one’s heart’s desire.
Our lives teach us who we are." I have learned the hard way that when you permit anyone else's description of reality to supplant your own ... then you might as well be dead.
When you throw everything up in the air anything becomes possible.
What you were is forever who you are.
Children get food shelter pocket money longholidays and love, all of it apparently free gratis, and most of the little fools think it's a sort of compensation for having been born. 'There are no strin...
All liberty required was that the space for discourse itself be protected. Liberty lay in the argument itself, not the resolution of that argument, in the ability to quarrel, even with the most cheris...
I'd rather die fighting over great poets than over gods.