“I'm fighting so I can die a martyr and go to heaven to meet God. Our fight now is against the Americans.”

“I have no objection to well-written romance, but I'd read enough of it to know that that's not what I had written. I also knew that if it was sold as romance I'd never be reviewed by the 'New York Times' or any other literarily respectable newspaper - which is basically true, although the 'Washingto”