"I don’t think a living being should suffer for the sake of fashion, period. End of story. When I realized what went into—not just, we’re not just even talking about a full-length fur coat, I’m talking about just the fur on your gloves or on your jacket or even—what goes into making that little piece of fur ripped my heart out!! And as humans, we have control. What if someone said, ‘Black skin is the new fur’?"

"'Democratic' societies ... the state can't control behavior by force. It can to some extent, but it's much more limited in its capacity to control by force. Therefore, it has to control what you think…"

"Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. What then kills love? Only this: Neglect. Not to see you when you stand before me. Not to think of you in the little things. Not to make th…"

"I love the notion of there being a single group of Apollonian watchdogs down through the aeons, keeping the world safe from the malign forces of Dionysos."

"On her passion for acting, Mumtaz said “I used to feel a sort of emptiness before I started acting but not any longer... If I were not an actress, I’d have gone crazy.” – December 1966"