Life Is Too Short To Be Lived

I Hate This Word 'graphic Novel.' It Is A Term Publishing Houses Have Created For The Bourgeois So They Wouldn't Be Ashamed Of Buying Comics... I'm Not A Graphic Novelist. I Am A Cartoonist And I Make Comics And I Am Very Happy About It.

If I Have One Message To Give To The Secular American People, It's That The World Is Not Divided Into Countries. The World Is Not Divided Between East And West. You Are American, I Am Iranian, We Don't Know Each Other, But We Talk Together And We Understand Each Other Perfectly. The Difference Between You And Your Government Is Much Bigger Than The Difference Between You And Me. And The Difference Between Me And My Government Is Much Bigger Than The Difference Between Me And You. And Our Governments Are Very Much The Same.

It's Always Extremely Interesting To Speak At Colleges. My Books Are Taught In Many Colleges In America And Are Part Of The Educational System, So It's Really Important To Me. I Don't Believe In So Many Things In Life, But Something I Believe In Is Education.

All Big Changes Of The World Come From Words.

You See A Picture And You Understand Perfectly, Immediately, The Basic Thing That's Happening. It's Probably More Accessible Because We Are In A Culture Of Images. People Are Used To Seeing Stories That Way. They Understand Looking At Pictures.