One should commit no stupidity twice, the variety of choice is, in the end, large enough.

I have such a desire to sleep and am so much behind my sleep. A good night, one good night and all this nonsense will be swept away.

I have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be that of Shariati's.

Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world.

One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.

it was odd, he thought, that a man could hate himself as though he were someone else.

How can I, who was not able to retain my own past, hope to save that of another?