Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon.

I have expressed my opinion through the written word through my books, that is all.

America's a hard school, I know, but hard schools make excellent graduates.

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.

You belong neither to God nor the state nor me. You belong to yourself and no one else.

I don't want to hear about my death.

Sometimes the dead are more alive than the living. And they can kill the living.