You know, I look to myself mainly as a creative writer all my life and a medical doctor.

Fearing servility, people become servile.

I am very much against makeup and high heels and all that we inherit as 'beauty.'

Revolutionary men with principles were not really different from the rest. They used their cleverness to get, in return for principles, what other men buy with their money.

The tracing of a child's lineage and its name with reference to the father, though it has lasted for many thousands of years, has not become any the more natural or reasonable as a result.

Something I tried to hold onto, to touch if only for a moment, but it slipped away from me like the air, like an illusion, or a dream that floats away and is lost. I wept in my sleep as though it was something I was losing now; a loss I was experiencing for the first time, and not something I had lost a long time ago.

War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.