In every religion, you find the same extremists.

For me George Bush is just as scary, if not more. Because he doesn't look like a scary guy, because he's shaved and he has a tie on. But he's a real fanatic - a fanatic by definition is the one who says, if you are not with me, you are against me, and that's exactly the position he takes. The mullahs in my country, it's obvious. But a guy who says I am the president of the biggest secular democracy in the world and asks people to read the Bible and make crusades and says he's God's best friend - this guy is even more scary because you don't see it at the beginning.

My culture comes from everywhere. I'm sick of this notion of nationality, that if you're brought up in the same city or same country you're the same. Even three kids brought up in the same family with the same genes, they are not the same. Just consider a human a human.

I realized then that I didn't understand anything. I read all the books I could.

My mother always told me I had to do 100 times better than a man. I had to work hard at maths, and learn four languages.

I don't consider myself as a feminist but more a humanist.

Nothing's worse than saying goodbye. It's a little like dying.