You wear yourself out in the pursuit of wealth or love or freedom, you do everything to gain some right, and once it's gained you take no pleasure in it.

Physical courage is a great test.

I am disgusted by the anti-Semitism of many Italians, of many Europeans.

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

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

The more democratic and open a society is, the more it's exposed to terrorism. The more a country is free, not governed by a police regime, the more it risks hijackings or massacres like the ones that took place for many years in Italy and Germany and other parts of Europe.

It brought back to mind the injustice I spoke of, the solitude that oppresses women intent on defending their own destinies, their own dreams, their own mistakes.