Life is such an effort, Child. It's a war that is renewed each day, and its moments of joy are brief parentheses for which you pay a cruel price.

I find it shameful that in nearly all the universities of Europe, Palestinian students sponsor and nurture anti-Semitism.

In the legends that males have invented to explain life, the first human creature is a man named Adam. Eve arrives later, to give him pleasure and cause trouble. In the paintings that adorn churches, God is an old man with a beard, never an old woman with white hair. And all the heroes are males: from Prometheus who discovered fire to Icarus who tried to fly, on down to Jesus whom they call the Son of God and of the Holy Spirit, almost as though the woman giving birth to him were an incubator or a wetnurse.

The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.

Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man?

I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion.

Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.