I've read enough novels to know just how much time & energy it takes to fall in love and I just don't have the time

The worker-mother must learn not to differentiate between yours and mine; she must remember that there are only our children, the children of Russia’s communist workers.

Sexuality is a human instinct as natural as hunger or thirst.

We can all avoid travel that is unnecessary we do not need to travel around the world when the source of all joy and all beauty is right within us.

United States: the country where liberty is a statue.

The more I study, the more insatiable do I feel my genius for it to be.

I want it to be so that when No. 27 is out there, they don't know what's going on because I do it all.

You're pretending this isn't your life. You think it's going to happen some other time. When you're dead you'll realise you were alive now.

As long as copyright is breached in Iran and international works are being freely published in magazines and newspapers, no one feels any need for Iranian works.

My hope for the planet is my children and grandchildren.

It is a great pleasure to transport one's-self into the spirit of the times; to see how a wise man has thought before us, and to what a glorious height we have at last carried it.

Where there are few expectations, expediency wins.

I can't explain inspiration. A writer is either compelled to write or not. And if I waited for inspiration I wouldn't really be a writer.