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

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

America is God equals America equals Business equals America equals God.

This Islam business kidnapped me.

I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.

Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.

Journalism combines adventure with culture.