I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.

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

Insults are the business of the court.

I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening.

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.

Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred.

The calendar has a magic that makes us imagine a memory can be resurrected and revived, but nothing returns.