"I know I am a writer; it is the only thing I am sure of." — Oriana Fallaci

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.

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I know I am a writer; it is the only thing I am sure of.