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

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

The negative side of the American Dream comes when people pursue success at any cost, which in turn destroys the vision and the dream.

There is little consolation in the fact that millions of people are unhappier than we are. Why should other people's misery make us happier or more content?

The worst crime committed by totalitarian mind-sets is that they force their citizens, including their victims, to become complicit in their crimes. Dancing with your jailer, participating in your own execution, that is an act of utmost brutality.

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

This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry?