Journalism at its best and most effective is education. Apparently people would not learn for themselves, nor from others.

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.

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

To use language is to enter into the territory of categories, which are as necessary as they are dangerous.

Americans, it seems to me, tend to protect their children from the harshness of life, in their interest. That's not the way my people rear their children. They let them experience the world as it is.

Fischer, the great American chess champion, famously said, 'Chess is life.' I would say, 'Pi is life.'

You cannot hinder someone's free will, that's the first law of the Universe, no matter what the decision.

Where names of people or places would mean little to a contemporary reader, I figured "translation errors" could create interesting new meanings.

I love 'Dr Strangelove.

Of Planets, struggling fierce towards heaven's free wilderness.

When you talk of revolution ... you never talk of the day after.

Learn all from one thing. -Ab uno disce omnes