By its existence, the Peace Movement denies that governments know best; it stands for a different order of priorities: the human race comes first.

I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.

Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.

Thousand got away to other countries; thousands returned to Spain tempted by false promises of kindness. By the tens of thousands, these Spaniards died of neglect in the concentration camps.

After a lifetime of war-watching, I see war as an endemic human disease, and governments are the carriers.

Nothing is better for self-esteem than survival.

I do not see myself as a footnote to someone else's life.

Public opinion, though slow as lava, in the end forces governments towards more sanity, more justice. My heroes and heroines are all private citizens.

All politicians are bores and liars and fakes. I talk to people.

In November you begin to know how long the winter will be.

Freedom' is the most expensive possession there is; it has to be paid for with loneliness.

How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?

Writing is capturing life, recording the human condition, and trying to glean meaning from it.

Public school teachers are the new priesthood while traditional religion is ridiculed and maligned.

Work ethic = dreams! That to me is that no one gets a free ride. You have to work for it and it doesn't get handed to you.

Messi is class. There is him, and then there is the rest. What he does is extraordinary.

Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue

I think capitalism will survive, because no attractive alternatives exist now

The picture which the philosopher draws of the world is surely not one in which every stroke is necessitated by pure logic.

I was constantly drawing and colouring. I had an immense love for art and anything which involved art fascinated me.

Leave every person you come in contact with, with the impression of increase.