An author never does more damage to his readers than when he hides a difficulty.

The analysts try in vain to conceal the fact that they do not deduce: they combine, they compose ... when they do arrive at the truth they stumble over it after groping their way along.

We have to be honest about what we want and take risks rather than lie to ourselves and make excuses to stay in our comfort zone.

...Opinion without a rational process.

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face the friends the health and the children you have earned.

Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.

My depression was mild, and I could treat it by myself and pick myself up again. But some people aren't that lucky.

If one has not read the newspapers for some months and then reads them all together, one sees, as one never saw before, how much time is wasted with this kind of literature.

Terrorism is contempt for human dignity.

When you get money you're always a target because there's always somebody who needs money out there.

Cuba will find its own way, regardless of what the U.S. wants. This has always been the case, not just since 1959.

The inability to forget is far more devastating than the inability to remember.