I must admit that I am not generous with weak people. It’s not in my nature or in my personality. My parents were not generous with weak people, see?

A civilization, a culture, cannot survive without passion, cannot be saved without passion.

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

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

I am disgusted by the anti-Semitism of many Italians, of many Europeans.

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

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.

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