Oriana Fallaci

Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient?

To speak of oneself means to lay bare one's own soul, expose it like a body to the sun. To lay bare one's own soul is not at all like taking off one's brassiere on a crowded beach!

I love soldiers. They are my kids, they are my children.

A civilization, a culture, cannot survive without passion, cannot be saved without passion.

Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man?

War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation.

When you have been born in a war like me, living in a war as a child, when you have been in wars as a war correspondent all your life - trust me! You develop a form of fatalism; you are always ready to die.

It is the mainspring of life, courage. And courage has many faces.

I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.

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.

This Islam business kidnapped me.

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.