We in ancient countries have our past- we obsess over the past. They, the Americans, have a dream: they feel nostalgia about the promise of the future.

My passion has always been books and literature, and teaching.

You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist.

Every great work of art ... is a celebration, an act of insubordination against the betrayals, horrors and infidelities of life.

those who judge must take all aspects of an individual's personality into account.

We in ancient countries have our past- we obsess over the past. They, the Americans, have a dream: they feel nostalgia about the promise of the future.

Thus the regime has deprived Iranian women not just of their present rights, but also of their history and their past.