I leave shreds of my soul on every experience.

Why do the people humiliate themselves by voting? I didn't vote because I have dignity. If I had closed my nose and voted for one of them, I would spit on my own face.

I don't want to hear about my death.

Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient?

I am a danger to myself if I get angry.

Sometimes I ask myself whether [Indira Gandhi] had, even then, a certain contempt for the system she represented and, years later, would overthrow.

Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.