I have never met a man more shy than Clark Gable. He was so shy, you couldn't make him talk.

The Muslims refuse our culture and try to impose their culture on us. I reject them, and this is not only my duty toward my culture-it is toward my values, my principles, my civilization.

Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is.

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

I cry, sometimes, because I'm not 20 years younger, and I'm not healthy. But if I were, I would even sacrifice my writing to enter politics.

What's the point anyway - Of suffering, dying? It teaches us to live, boy. A man who does not struggle does not live, he survives.

But here's what I've learned in this war, in this country, in this city: to love the miracle of having been born.