None of us can avoid being contaminated by the world's evils; it's all a matter of what attitude you take towards them.

The more we die, the stronger we will become

Lots of times you can feel as an exile in a country that you were born in.

Living in the Islamic Republic is like having sex with someone you loathe.

She was one of those people who are irrevocably, incurably honest and therefore both inflexible and vulnerable at the same time.

Look at Ayatollah Khomeini's revolution and the slogans that they used: anti-imperialism; anti-colonialism; the struggle of the have-nots against the haves; the state monopoly over economy, which was very much patterned after the Soviet Union. All of these things did not come out of Islam. Islam is not that developed.

Unfortunately for governments like that of Iran, when they forbid something, people become more interested.