My mother said to me, "If you become a soldier, you'll be a general, if you become a monk you'll end up as the pope." Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso. |
A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night. |
A lot of people in Pakistan don't even know who Jinnah was and the ones who know will never agree what he said let alone what he meant by what he said. |
I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like. |
When someone follows you all the way to the shop and watches you buy toilet roll, you know your life has changed. |
He lacked only one thing to make him a perfect genius: He failed to be incomprehensible. |
It is the luminosity of lights that illuminates our presence... else we are just so so common! |
There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground. |
If I had my time over I would do the same again. So would any man who dares call himself a man. |
I have come to realise there is no place I'd rather be than working till the dew begins to drop, on a stage with music and lights. |