Journalist

I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion.

What are the symbols of American strength, wealth, power and modernity? Certainly not jazz and rock and roll, not chewing-gum or hamburgers, Broadway or Hollywood. It's their skyscrapers. Their Pentagon. Their science. Their technology.

The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.

Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man?

America's vulnerability comes precisely from its strength, its wealth, its power and its modernity. It's the usual story of the dog chasing its own tail.

Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man?

To speak of oneself means to lay bare one's own soul, expose it like a body to the sun. To lay bare one's own soul is not at all like taking off one's brassiere on a crowded beach!

I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born.

The larger truth, the universal truth that you can give in a novel, is far greater than what you can give through journalism.

We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century.

To speak of oneself means to lay bare one's own soul, expose it like a body to the sun. To lay bare one's own soul is not at all like taking off one's brassiere on a crowded beach!

Heroes can be sweet.

Why do the people humiliate themselves by voting? I didn't vote because I have dignity. If I had closed my nose and voted for one of them, I would spit on my own face.

I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant.

The Muslims refuse our culture and try to impose their culture on us. I reject them, and this is not only my duty toward my culture-it is toward my values, my principles, my civilization.

America's vulnerability comes precisely from its strength, its wealth, its power and its modernity. It's the usual story of the dog chasing its own tail.

I cry, sometimes, because I'm not 20 years younger, and I'm not healthy. But if I were, I would even sacrifice my writing to enter politics.

We must take positions. Our weakness in the West is born of the fact of so-called 'objectivity.' Objectivity does not exist - it cannot exist!... The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only.

The most humiliating thing a woman can be is a coquette.

I no longer have the energy to get really angry, like I used to.