I think I'm cold, indeed icy, hard. Then there's another reason, one that goes with my frankness: I don't put on act.

I learned very soon to get along by myself.

A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.

If by happiness you mean ecstasy ... Yes, I've known ecstasy, and it's a blessing to be able to say it because those who can say it are very few. But ecstasy doesn't last long and is seldom if ever repeated.

I had many dolls. And you know how I played with them? By performing insurrections, assemblies, scenes of arrest. My dolls were almost never babies to be nursed but men and women who attacked barracks and ended up in prison.

I can't take it seriously when people get excited and scream that religion is in danger, and similar stupidities.

[ Zulfikar Ali] Bhutto is not a very balanced man. When he talks, you never understand what he means. What does he mean this time? That he wants to be friends with us? We've wanted to be friends with him for some time; I've always wanted to.