My definition of what makes a journey wholly or partially horrible is boredom.

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.

We must yield to the power of words. Even God has chosen words to communicate with his creatures like us

You change your life by changing your heart.

I am a dolt of a man, easily made happy or even stupidly happy almost without cause and left alone I am mostly content.

The worst of failure of this kind is that it spoils the market for more competent performers.

Now all the mute objects of my life seem to tell my story, to stretch back in time, if I look closely enough.

There are moments in our lives which, threaded, give us heaven—

A brick layer, lays bricks... I'm an Actor, that's what I do.

Yet it seems that a final race struggle is unavoidable

We serve life, not because it is broken, but because it is holy.

The country is in an extraordinary ferment.