"Sometimes you have to poke holes in the darkness until it bleeds light."

“Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.”

“Without any cant, does not Providence provide wonderfully for us?”

Source : Lady Isabel Burton (1879). “Arabia, Egypt, India: A Narrative of Travel”, London, W. Mullan and son

“I love fast cars... and to go too fast in them.”

“What I have found is that real friends stand by you.”

“‗In life, at sometime or another we come to a point where all relationships cease—where there is only us and Allah. There are no parents, brother or sister, or any friend. Then we realise that there is no earth under us nor is there sky above, but only Allah who is supporting us in this emptiness. Then we realise our worth – it is not more than a grain of sand or the leaf of a plant. Then we realise our existence is only confined to our being. Our demise makes not a whit of difference to the world around us, nor to the scheme of things.”

“All my film ideas and subjects have come from photography.”

Source : "Interview with Lauren Greenfield, Director of Queen of Versailles". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. July 20, 2012.

“Do we always make our freedom out of someone else's bondage?”

“She says you're not truly human until you've had your heart broken and you've broken someone's heart.”

Source : Catherine Gilbert Murdock (2009). “Front and Center”, p.210, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt