Art Is As Useful As

Every Culture Has Something To Be Ashamed Of, But Every Culture Also Has The Right To Change, To Challenge Negative Traditions, And Create To New Ones.

The Stories From Iran's Present And Past Are Reminders That Freedom, Democracy And Human Rights, Or Fundamentalism, Fascism And Terrorism Are Not Geographically And Culturally Determined, But Universal.

I See People Who Talk About America, And Then Undermine It By Not Paying Attention To Its Soul, To Its Poetry. I See Polarization, Reductionism And Superficiality.

America Was Based On A Poetic Vision. What Will Happen When It Loses Its Poetry?

A Bad Author Can Take The Most Moral Issue And Make You Want To Just Never, Ever Think About That Moral Issue.