The Syrian civil war is a "crime initiated by the United States and the Zionist regime, Israel."

It is the mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to erase Israel from the map of the region.

Israel is a hideous entity in the middle east which will undoubtedly be annihilated.

The issue of human rights is one of the most fundamental human issues and also one of the most sensitive and controversial.

[There is only one possible solution to unrest in the Middle East], namely the annihilation and destruction of the Zionist state.

The winner must promote social jusitce, remove corruption and discrmination, and stand against political, cultural and economic plots.

The great Islamic nation cannot ... be indifferent and remain silent on the injustice done to you. The Islamic nation is required to assist you in any way it can.

The Islamic Republic is proud to be the target of the rage of the world's greatest Satan.

No, we did not do this, and we are not with you.

The idea of human rights as a fundamental principle can be seen to underlie throughout Islamic teachings.

The fake Zionist [regime] will disappear from the landscape of geography.

It is the deepest of wrongs I am driven to write…. And losing you was one of them.

I'm a struggling writer, I'm struggling to convince people I'm a writer.

Always winter but never Christmas.

I've seen of enough of people who die for an idea. I don't believe in heroism; I know it's easy and I've learned it can be murderous. What interests me is living and dying for what one loves.

I'm not sure I would have ever decided to try to write when I was forty-five if I hadn't already gotten that degree [in English].

When I went to war, I did not go making geopolitical calculations. I went to war with a lust.

The classical example of a successful research programme is Newton's gravitational theory: possibly the most successful research programme ever.

The typical nature photograph shows a butterfly on a pretty flower. The conservation photograph shows the same thing, but with a bulldozer coming at it in the background.

The manner of the country makes the usage of life there, and the land will not be lived in except in its own fashion.

Ultimately what I want to do, I want to go back and do some more action movies.