I don't want to quit smoking. I am convinced that if I quit smoking, the world would go to hell.

The Germans sell chemical weapons to Iran and Iraq. The wounded are then sent to Germany to be treated. Veritable human guinea pigs.

I had this fantasy that in a democracy the government was the population. So I came to America and got a big slap in my face... Americans were not what I thought. I thought I was going to see bastards and I saw nice people, very friendly to me.

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.

It's fear that makes us lose our conscience. It's also what transforms us into cowards.

Teacher: What do you want to be when you grow up? Marji: I'll be a prophet.

In every religion, you find the same extremists.