"Night is mine, together with a substantial part of the future."

“In a sense, I never got over Robert Lowell's History. A flawed, infinitely brilliant project I never tire of going back to. It's a modern Inferno, where Lowell plays both Dante and Virgil, guiding us through dozens of illuminating, bitter episodes from human history, all the while managing to hold a mirror to our confused hominid face as it squints at eternity and fails to grasp any of it.”

“I want to keep working, I want to keep doing my humanitarian stuff around the world, shining light on different places that have problems. Keep making movies, make people laugh.”

Source : "Chris Tucker and Brett Ratner". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. August 7, 2007.

“all working, practical political systems, even those professing to originate in moral grandeur, are based upon and operate by contempt of human life and the individual fate ...”

“You cannot enslave a mind that knows itself. That values itself. That understands itself.”

“It is very important to understand that pluralism is part of our system. We don't all think the same thing and part of our strength is that we come from different perspectives. We have to respect one another even when we disagree with each other. There has to be a spirit of tolerance for the views of others, while also being deeply committed to the positions we hold. If we do that, I think we can coexist and learn to love each other better.”

“I write arrangements. Im sort of a wannabe composer.”

“I think it's tremendously important that women continue to be full participants in the corporate environment, and that they continue to seek the same responsibilities, opportunities and rewards in that environment that in the past have only been available to men.”

“When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain.”

Source : Mohsin Hamid (2012). “Moth Smoke”, p.9, Penguin