I Hate This Word 'graphic Novel.' It

Well, I Would Have Much Preferred To Have Had A Normal Childhood. I Would Have Loved It If My Greatest Dilemma, At 14, Was Whether To Go To Benetton For My Pullovers. I Would Have Preferred Not To Have Cried All The Tears I Have Cried.

I Like Making Comics And Animation Because It Takes Such A Long Time. I'm Not A Runner Of The 100 Meter. I Like Marathons. The Longer It Takes, The Better I Feel.

The Regime Had Understood That One Person Leaving Her House While Asking Herself: Are My Trousers Long Enough?' Is My Veil In Place?' Can My Make-up Be Seen?' Are They Going To Whip Me?' No Longer Asks Herself: Where Is My Freedom Of Thought?' Where Is My Freedom Of Speech?' My Life, Is It Livable?' What's Going On In The Political Prisons?

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 Against Me, So What? I'm Against Them Too.

This Clash Of The Culture, East And The West, Us And Them, Muslim And Christian, Does Not Exist.