Here [in the USA], you have the best laws for freedom of expression. The problem is that expression can be bought by people who don't want you have it. Apparently, true patriotism destroys freedom of expression.

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.

All big changes of the world come from words.

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.

For me, drawing is a question of death and life. Every day I draw, I write, I do something.

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

I almost don't know how to write an email.