Journalist

Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is.

I don't want to hear about my death.

I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. It's that simple!

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.

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

My soldier weapon is the weapon of truth.

I've always disliked kamikazes, that is, people who commit suicide in order to kill others. Starting with the Japanese ones from World War II. I never considered them Pietro Miccas who torch the powder and go up with the citadel in order to block the arrival of the enemy troops at Torino. I never considered them soldiers.

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.

When my father was arrested, we didn't know where they had him. My mother found him at the house of torture. It was called Villa Triste.

How do you dare to ask me for a solution? It's like asking Seneca for a solution. You remember what he did? He committed suicide!

Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader.

This Islam business kidnapped me.

I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.

Wojtyla was a warrior, who did more to end the Soviet Union than even America.

You cannot work and be at home with your child. But you want both.

I have expressed my opinion through the written word through my books, that is all.

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

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

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

Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon.