You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist.
The more we die, the stronger we will become
Living in the Islamic Republic is like having sex with someone you loathe.
It takes courage to die for a cause, but also to live for one.
We in ancient countries have our past- we obsess over the past. They, the Americans, have a dream: they feel nostalgia about the promise of the future.
A novel is not moral in the usual sense of the word. It can be called moral when it shakes us out of our stupor and makes us confront the absolutes we believe in.