"به چشمهایم زل زد و گفت : - با هم درستش می کنیم ! و من تازه فهمیدم تنهایی چه وسعت نامحدودی دارد، "با هم"......چه لذتی داشت این با هم، حتی اگر با هم ه… - Lillian Hellman

Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

It was in that tree that I learned to read, filled with the passions that can only come to the bookish, grasping, very young, bewildered by almost all of what I read, sweating in the attempt to understand a world of adults I fled from in real life but desperately wanted to join in books. (I did not connect the grown men and women in literature with the grown men and women I saw around me. They were, to me, another species.)

There are people who eat earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. Then there are people who stand around and watch them eat it. (Softly) Sometimes I think it ain't right to stand and watch them do it.