in the last chapter, i bring a quotation from sal bello -- saul bello.ys those who survived the ordeal of holocaust, how will they survive the ordeal of freedom? because freedom is a new thing that has to be nurtured every day. >> you make the link between your political activism and your love for literature, stating that we should ask ourselves, what are we ready to sacrifice in order to keep our access to culture. >> it is amazing. it keeps being repeated throughout history where we are not aware of the importance of culture until you miss it. right now in the united states, we are having censorship. we are having books banned. we even have books burned, and this is a democracy. this is where freedom of expression was given birth to, and it is so frightening to me. i keep telling them, in iran, repression is obvious. in iran, they kill writers. they execute them. in the united states, they don't jail them or beat them up, but one of the worst things that they do is become indifferent to them. not reading books means the end of books. you need constantl