Once you get a tyranny, you don't easily get rid of it. Much better to remember about eternal vigilance.

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.

Who does not know another language does not know his own.

Take assertiveness training, get paid what you're worth, join a consciousness raising-group.

I am not a violent person. I am a product of the Flower Power '60s. I have actually worn bell-bottomed jeans.

If it brings me to my knees, it's a bad religion

Efficiency is the foundation for survival. Effectiveness is the foundation for success.

Faith in a better than that which appears is no less required by art than by religion.

Chance favours a prepared mind.

Nowadays, you gots ta walk the street and watch your back, Cause brothers with the gats don't be knowin' how to act.

Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech.