My Passion Has Always Been Books And

You Don't Read Gatsby, I Said, To Learn Whether Adultery Is Good Or Bad But To Learn About How Complicated Issues Such As Adultery And Fidelity And Marriage Are. A Great Novel Heightens Your Senses And Sensitivity To The Complexities Of Life And Of Individuals, And Prevents You From The Self-righteousness That Sees Morality In Fixed Formulas About Good And Evil.

I Have A Recurring Fantasy That One More Article Has Been Added To The Bill Of Rights: The Right To Free Access To Imagination.

Every Great Work Of Art ... Is A Celebration, An Act Of Insubordination Against The Betrayals, Horrors And Infidelities Of Life.

We All Had To Pay, But Not For The Crimes We Were Accused Of. There Were Other Scores To Settle.

After The Rigged Iranian Presidential Elections In 2009, The Islamic Regime Attacked The 'humanities' As The Main Source Of Protests, The Most Effective Tool Used By The West, Especially America, To Corrupt And Incite Iranian Youth, And Finally Closed Down All The Humanities Departments In Iran's Universities.