If today I have to make a political statement, it is, 'I love beauty.' I think beauty makes people better.

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.

'The Jungle Book.' It's one of the best animated films ever. I saw it when I was small at a cinema in Tehran.

One can forgive but one should never forget.

George W.Bush can go and kill thousands of Iraqis every day. By making people believe they are the enemy, and not human beings any more. If evil has an address, a nationality, you can exterminate all of them. This is fascism.

A well-trained cat doesn't exist because a cat remains a cat.

War always takes you by surprise.