Graphic novels are not traditional literature, but that does not mean they are second-rate. Images are a way of writing. When you have the talent to be able to write and to draw, it seems a shame to choose one. I think it's better to do both.

It's true that, in Iran, women have half of the rights men do. And yet 66 per cent of students are women.

In any case, it's the cowardice of people like you who give dictators the chance to install themselves!

I have been brought up open-minded. If I didn't know any people from other countries, I'd think everyone was evil based on news stories. But I know a lot of people, and know that there is no such thing as stark good and evil. Isn't it possible there is the same amount of evil everywhere?

Revolutions just spread blood. Evolution - this is something that changes in the long term.

A cat can never be well-trained because they're too independent.

I was a westerner in Iran, an Iranian in the West. I had no identity. I didn't even know anymore why I was living.