When I walked down the streets, I asked myself, are these my people?, is this my hometown, am I who I am?

Khatami is a symptom and not the cause of change in Iran.

The crisis besetting America is not just an economic or political crisis; something deeper is wreaking havoc across the land, a mercenary and utilitarian attitude that demonstrates little empathy for people’s actual well-being, that dismisses imagination and thought, branding passion for knowledge as irrelevant.

I think Islam is in a sense, in crisis. It needs to question and re-question itself.

A bad author can take the most moral issue and make you want to just never, ever think about that moral issue.

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?