Culture and education are the lethal weapons against all kinds of fundamentalism. - Marjane Satrapi

You know, they say in France that translation is like a woman: she is either beautiful or faithful.

The harder I tried to assimilate, the more I had the feeling that I was distancing myself from my culture, betraying my parents and my origins, that I was playing a game by somebody else's rules.

That day I learned something essential: We can only fell sorry for ourselves when our misfortunes are still supportable...once this limit is crossed, the only way to bear the unbearable is to laugh at it.