Literature should be more revolutionary than revolutions themselves; writers must find the means to continue to be critical of the negative elements in the sociopolitical reality.

At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.

I found myself in a sea in which the waves of joy and sorrow were clashing against each other.

If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be my last.

I reject any path which rejects life, but I can't help loving Sufism because it sounds so beautiful. It gives relief in the midst of battle.

I consider Khomeini's position dangerous. He does not have the right to pass judgment-that is not the Islamic way.

In the calculus of good deeds you have the most to gain.