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

The dearer a book was to my heart, the more battered and bruised it became.

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

America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry?

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

i could have told him to learn from Gatsby. from the lonely, isolated Gatsby, who also tried to retrieve his past and give flash and blood to a fancy, a dream that was never meant to be more than a dream.

We speak of facts, yet facts exist only partially to us if they are not repeated and re-created through emotions, thoughts and feelings. To me it seemed as if we had not really existed, or only half existed, because we could not imaginatively realize ourselves and communicate to the world, because we had used works of imagination to serve as handmaidens to some political ploy.