I wish wish I could steal the intricacies of language. But give my kids a break—remember, most of them were fed on Steinbeck’s The Pearl.
I always had a hankering for the security of impossible dreams.
How could God be so cruel as to create a Muslim woman with so much flesh and so little sex appeal?
At that time, she had worn the scarf as a testament to her faith. Her decision was a voluntary act. When the revolution forced the scarf on others, her action became meaningless.
هذا ما تعنيه لي طهران حقاً : فغيابها يبدو أكثر حقيقة وعمقاً من حضورها
إنه من المخيف حقاً أن يحس الانسان بالحرية، وأن يكون مسؤولاً عن قراراته!
You cannot just be stubborn against something, you need to be sib born for something as well
Those who judge must take all aspects of an individual's personality into account.
The world is full of angry, pathological individuals pushing pieces of paper with obscene messages under doors.
You see this is a chair, but when you come to describe it, you do so from where you are positioned, and from your own perspective, and so you cannot say there is only one way of seeing a chair, can yo...
We in ancient countries have our past—we obsess over the past. They, the Americans, have a dream: they feel nostalgia about the promise of the future.
We envy people like you, and we want to be you; we can't, so we destroy you.
We can't all leave this country, Bijan had told me-this is our home. The world is a large place, my magician had said when I went to him with my woes. You can write and teach wherever you are. You wil...
Un romanzo non è un'allegoria, è l'esperienza sensoriale di un altro mondo. Se non entrate in quel mondo, se non trattenete il respiro insieme ai personaggi, se non vi lasciate coinvolgere nel loro de...
Un roman, n'est pas une allégorie, ai-je conclu. C'est l'expérience, à travers nos propres sens, d'un autre monde. Si vous n'entrez pas dans ce monde, si vous ne retenez pas votre souffle en même temp...
These students of mine, like the rest of their generation, were different from mine in one fundamental aspect. My generation complained of a loss, the void in our lives that was created when our past...
These people, he had said with his inscrutable smile, are different from us. They don’t care about books and such things.
These are people who consciously choose failure in order to preserve their own sense of integrity. They are more elitist than mere snobs, because of their high standards.
These are my memories of Norman: red earth and fireflies, singing and demonstrating on the Oval, reading Melville, Poe, Lenin and Mao Tse Tung, reading Ovid and Shakespeare on warm spring mornings wit...
There was something, both in fiction and in his life (Nabokov), that we instinctively related to and grasped, the possibility of a boundless freedom when all options are taken away.I could invent viol...