“If I were asked for a one-sentence sound
bite on religion, I would say I was against it.”

“I have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be that of Shariati's.”

“If anybody asks me what I have accomplished, I will say all I have accomplished is that I have written a few good sentences.”

“The soldiers stumbled forward doggedly, cursing the bite of the wind while reminding one another that generals are seldom of sound mind and unbesmirched ancestry. They would not be generals if they were.”

“If I were personally to define religion, I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circumstance.”

“My baby is alright,
She doesn't mind a bit of dirt,
She says 'Horror vampire bat bite, sex vampire, how I wish those bats would bite',
Woooooah! Bite! Bite! Release the bats!”

“I am trying to say it all in one sentence, between one cap and one period.”

“I would pay snakes to bite her.”

“We were outside. The icy wind whipped my face. I was constantly biting my lips so that they wouldn't freeze. All around me, what appeared to be a dance of death. My head was reeling. I was walking through a cemetery. Among the stiffened corpses, there were logs of wood. Not a sound of distress, not a plaintive cry, nothing but mass agony and silence. Nobody asked anyone for help. One died because one had to. No point in making trouble.”

“And thrice do I say to thee… bite me.”