I don't believe in the clash of cultures. The culture is one. The culture is a ring off the same chain. Picasso was very much influenced by the Afric….

My culture comes from everywhere. I'm sick of this notion of nationality, that if you're brought up in the same city or same country you're the same.….

In life you'll meet a lot of jerks. If they hurt you, tell yourself that it's because they're stupid. That will help keep you from reacting to their ….

Culture and education are the lethal weapons against all kinds of fundamentalism..

I hate this word 'graphic novel.' It is a term publishing houses have created for the bourgeois so they wouldn't be ashamed of buying comics... I'm n….

Drawing is the first language of the human being before writing. It's a transcription of how the human being sees reality, not reality itself..

The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people..

All big changes of the world come from words..

Life is too short to be lived badly..

The best thing I ever did in my life was to ask, 'Do I like everybody?' And the answer was, 'No.' So why should everybody like me? If people are agai….

It is dangerous when you start calling people from one part of the world terrorists or fanatic, and you reduce them to some abstract notion. If evil ….

My mother always told me I had to do 100 times better than a man. I had to work hard at maths, and learn four languages..

The world is not about Batman and Robin fighting the Joker; things are more complicated than that. And nothing is scarier than the people who try to ….

I have my dark side. You have your dark side. From the second that we have a brain, there are things that are not right - we are human beings with al….

Here's the problem: the description of the world is always reduced to yes or no, black or white. Superficial stories. Superhero stories. One side is ….

I don't like the word 'autobiography.' I rather like the term 'autofiction.' The second you make a script out of the story of your life, it becomes f….

If I have one message to give to the secular American people, it's that the world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between Eas….

Evil is international and the fanatic is international and universal. There is no difference between a Muslim fanatic, a Christian fanatic, even a se….

Maybe the biggest problem is that there's no empathy. Nobody puts themselves in the place of others. Everyone thinks they are the only one to suffer.….

I respect humanity. That's my religion. I can't stand these religions that are really businesses. So much money everywhere that's going to buy a real….

I was a westerner in Iran, an Iranian in the West. I had no identity. I didn't even know anymore why I was living..