The more we die, the stronger we will become

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

Empathy lies at the heart of Gatsby, like so many other great novels-the biggest sin is to be blind to others problems and pains. Not seeing them means denying their existence.

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

For more than 30 years the Islamic regime and its apologists have tried to dismiss women's struggle in Iran as part of a western ploy.

Poor reading, like poor writing, is imposing what you already know on texts. You should go into reading to discover, not to reaffirm what you know.

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