I Am Very Bad At Computers. I

We Can Only Feel 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.

The Most Natural Thing For Us Is Drawing. The Characters [in Persepolis] Are Hand Drawn. We're Not Technical People. We Don't Know How To Type.

For Me George Bush Is Just As Scary, If Not More. Because He Doesn't Look Like A Scary Guy, Because He's Shaved And He Has A Tie On. But He's A Real Fanatic - A Fanatic By Definition Is The One Who Says, If You Are Not With Me, You Are Against Me, And That's Exactly The Position He Takes. The Mullahs In My Country, It's Obvious. But A Guy Who Says I Am The President Of The Biggest Secular Democracy In The World And Asks People To Read The Bible And Make Crusades And Says He's God's Best Friend - This Guy Is Even More Scary Because You Don't See It At The Beginning.

I'm A Very Individualistic Person. That Is Why I Don't Belong To Any Political Party Or Anything. I Really Believe In Justice And Freedom.

You Are Putting Yourself In Serious Danger...' I Think That I Preferred To Put Myself In Serious Danger Rather Than Confront My Shame. My Shame At Not Having Become Someone, The Shame Of Not Having Made My Parents Proud After All The Sacrifices They Had Made For Me. The Shame Of Having Become A Mediocre Nihilist.