Besides the things I asked [Indira Gandhi], she told me about her son Rajiv, who is married to an Italian girl and is a pilot for Air India, then of her younger son Sanjay, who is an automobile designer and still a bachelor.

Henry Kissinger may have wished I had presented him as a combination of Charles DeGaulle and Disraeli, but I didn't....out of respect for DeGaulle and Disraeli. I described him as a cowboy because that is how he describes himself. If I were a cowboy I would be offended.

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

Sometimes I ask myself whether [Indira Gandhi] had, even then, a certain contempt for the system she represented and, years later, would overthrow.

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

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

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