To be good or bad doesn't count: life out in this world doesn't depend on that. It depends on a relation of forces based on violence. And survival is violence. You'll wear leather shoes because someone has killed a cow and skinned it to make leather.

I don't want to hear about my death.

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

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

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.

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

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.