Without Khomeini, We Would Not

I Don't Even Know If I Will Be Around Next Year. My Cancers Are So Bad That I Think I've Arrived At The End Of The Road. What A Pity. I Would Like To Live Not Only Because I Love Life So Much, But Because I'd Like To See The Result Of The Trial. I Do Think I Will Be Found Guilty.

I'll Impose Upon You The Same Arrogance That Was Imposed On Me, And On My Mother, My Grandmother, My Grandmother's Mother: All The Way Back To The First Human Born Of Another Human Being, Whether He Liked It Or Not. Probably, If He Or She Had Been Allowed To Choose, He Would Have Been Frightened And Answered: No, I Don't Want To Be Born. But No One Asked Their Opinion, And So They Were Born And Lived And Died After Giving Birth To Another Human Being Who Was Not Asked To Choose, And That One Did Likewise, For Millions Of Years, Right Down To Us.

I've Always Disliked Kamikazes, That Is, People Who Commit Suicide In Order To Kill Others. Starting With The Japanese Ones From World War Ii. I Never Considered Them Pietro Miccas Who Torch The Powder And Go Up With The Citadel In Order To Block The Arrival Of The Enemy Troops At Torino. I Never Considered Them Soldiers.

I Have Expressed My Opinion Through The Written Word Through My Books, That Is All.

I'm Going To Show You The Real New York - Witty, Smart, And International - Like Any Metropolis. Tell Me This: Where In Europe Can You Find Old Hungary, Old Russia, Old France, Old Italy? In Europe You're Trying To Copy America, You're Almost American. But Here You'll Find Europeans Who Immigrated A Hundred Years Ago - And We Haven't Spoiled Them. Oh, Gio! You Must See Why I Love New York. Because The Whole World's In New York.