You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist..

I would like to say how much I resent people who say of the Islamic Republic that this is our culture - as if women like to be stoned to death, or as….

For more than 30 years the Islamic regime and its apologists have tried to dismiss women's struggle in Iran as part of a western ploy..

None of us can avoid being contaminated by the world's evils; it's all a matter of what attitude you take towards them..

The dearer a book was to my heart, the more battered and bruised it became..

Basically, fundamentalism is a modern phenomenon. In the same way that Hitler evoked a mythological religion of German purity and the glory of the pa….

Every fairy tale offers the potential to surpass present limits, so in a sense the fairy tale offers you freedoms that reality denies..

We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle..

A good novel is one that shows the complexity of individuals, and creates enough space for all these characters to have a voice; in this way a novel ….

Khatami is a symptom and not the cause of change in Iran..

The crisis besetting America is not just an economic or political crisis; something deeper is wreaking havoc across the land, a mercenary and utilita….

I eat my heart out alone..

What we search for in fiction is not so much reality, but the epiphany of truth..

Unfortunately for governments like that of Iran, when they forbid something, people become more interested..

The negative side of the American Dream comes when people pursue success at any cost, which in turn destroys the vision and the dream..

In all great works of fiction, regardless of the grim reality they present, there is an affirmation of life against the transience of that life, an e….

With fear come the lies and the justifications that, no matter how convincing, lower our self-esteem..

Art is as useful as bread..

Thus the regime has deprived Iranian women not just of their present rights, but also of their history and their past..

Imagine you are walking down a leafy path...The sun is receding, and you are walking alone, caressed by the breezy light of the late afternoon. Then ….

I believe that it is only through empathy, that the pain experienced by an Algerian woman, a North Korean dissident, a Rwandan child or an Iraqi pris….