"The buildings of Nishapur Time had striven to displace And ruin wide from every side had thither its face God willed …"

"Despite my age, I can almost say that I have never put pen to paper without worrying about censorship. The nightmare …"

"The Shāhnāmeh is the greatest epic in history. It is a treasure trove of ideas, wisdom, advice, help, guidance, and r…"

"the more sincere and intimate the relationship between a work and its reader, the better. So the countries that don’t…"

"Being iconoclastic is only acceptable and desirable if the public—or at least a specific segment of society—is open t…"

"ترا میخواهم و دانم که هرگز"

"...هوس در دیدگانش شعله افروخت"

"دلم گرفته است"

"Not every man is greater than every woman, nor every woman inferior to every man."

"But to be fair, in any covenant and time and in any land and place, has it ever happened that someone was told "my da…"