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.
From Oriana Fallaci
War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation.
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.
I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
I defend Israel's right to exist, to defend themselves, to not let themselves be exterminated a second time.
Heroes can be sweet.
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!
It must be terribly lonely to be a king instead of a man.
The larger truth, the universal truth that you can give in a novel, is far greater than what you can give through journalism.
A civilization, a culture, cannot survive without passion, cannot be saved without passion.
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