Drawing is the first language of the human being before writing. It's a transcription of how the human being sees reality, not reality itself.

In every religion, you find the same extremists.

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.

I don't like 'graphic novel.' It's a word that publishers created for the bourgeois to read comics without feeling bad. Comics is just a way of narrating - it's just a media type.

I think with pictures; I'm a very lousy writer. If I write without pictures, I become this pathetic chick sitting somewhere trying to be interesting.

This clash of the culture, East and the West, us and them, Muslim and Christian, does not exist.

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.