Journalism is an extraordinary and terrible privilege. Not by chance, if you are aware of it, does it consume you with a hundred feelings of inadequacy. Not by chance, when I find myself going through an event or an important encounter, does it seize me like anguish, a fear of not having enough eyes and enough ears and enough brains to look and listen and understand like a worm hidden in the wood of history.

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 phenomen. To the same degree that I do not understand power, I do understand those who oppose power, who criticize power, who contest power, especially those who rebel against power imposed by brutality.

We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century

I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant.

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

I know ours is a world made by men for men, their dictatorship is so ancient it even extends to language.

I defend Israel's right to exist, to defend themselves, to not let themselves be exterminated a second time.