Art Is As Useful As Bread.

The Best Work Of Literature To Represent The American Dream Is 'the Great Gatsby' By F. Scott Fitzgerald. It Shows Us How Dreaming Can Be Tainted By Reality, And That If You Don't Compromise, You May Suffer.

I Would Like To Say How Much I Resent People Who Say Of The Islamic Republic That This Is Our Culture - As If Women Like To Be Stoned To Death, Or As If They Like To Be Married At The Age Of Nine.

Look At Ayatollah Khomeini's Revolution And The Slogans That They Used: Anti-imperialism; Anti-colonialism; The Struggle Of The Have-nots Against The Haves; The State Monopoly Over Economy, Which Was Very Much Patterned After The Soviet Union. All Of These Things Did Not Come Out Of Islam. Islam Is Not That Developed.

Thus The Regime Has Deprived Iranian Women Not Just Of Their Present Rights, But Also Of Their History And Their Past.

America Was Based On A Poetic Vision. What Will Happen When It Loses Its Poetry?