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…

- Marjane Satrapi

Nothing's worse than saying goodbye. It's a little like dying.

- Marjane Satrapi

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 …

- Marjane Satrapi

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

- Marjane Satrapi

Life is too short to be lived badly.

- Marjane Satrapi

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

- Marjane Satrapi

All big changes of the world come from words.

- Marjane Satrapi

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.

- Marjane Satrapi

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.…

- Marjane Satrapi