You get a strange feeling when you're about to leave a place, I told him, like you'll not only miss the people you love but you'll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you'll never be this way ever again.

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

I no longer believe that we can keep silent. We never really do, mind you. In one way or another we articulate what has happened to us through the kind of people we become.

Every culture has something to be ashamed of, but every culture also has the right to change, to challenge negative traditions, and create to new ones.

I am suddenly left alone again on the sunny path, with a memory of the rain.

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

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