The best English institute I've ever known in Tehran, has a four-story building and almost 20 classrooms. I have been there several times. And I've always seen that many of these classrooms are empty.

I think this emptiness is very important.

I am too pure for you or anyone.
Your body
Hurts me as the world hurts God. I am a lantern.

Sylvia Plath

Student loves his teacher but teacher's main concern is teaching.

"The process of making a film is a mad lottery. Whenever you get the feeling that you're making something special, you have to quickly squash it because you are so often proved wrong."

"I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it."

"The people I consider successful are so because of how they handle their responsibilities to other people, how they approach the future, people who have a full sense of the value of their life and what they want to do with it. I call people successful not because they have money or their business is doing well but because, as human beings, they have a fully developed sense of being alive and engaged in a lifetime task of collaboration with other human beings -- their mothers and fathers, their family, their friends, their loved ones, the friends who are dying, the friends who are being born. Success.. is all about being able to extend love to people... not in a big, capital letter sense but in
the everyday. Little by little, task by task, gesture by gesture, word by word."

Railph Fiennes

News

Read this article about painful lives of Iraqi women in the Observer.

Friends need to talk to each other...
At first it seems so easy, but in fact it's too difficult...

"Art is artifice."
Edgar Degas