The world's fat is badly divided.

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.

Products come with a WARNING label that reveals what they are made of. People come with one too

Movies are an expensive business.

What on earth prompted you to take a hand in this?" "I don't know. My… my code of morals, perhaps." "Your code of morals. What code, if I may ask?" "Comprehension.

Discipline works from the inside out, and punishment tries to work from the outside in.

If I feel in need of sleep, I just open a book or turn on the television. Both are better than any sleeping pill.

Religious persecutors are not believers, they are rascals.

it's a complete rush to get what you've been hoping for - to get it so full and complete that it fills your senses.

If I be not in a state of grace, I pray God place me in it; if I be in it, I pray God keep me so.

Men who ape the saint and play the sinner.

Fantasy-based ideologies invariably have neat happy endings where all the bad people and all the bad behavior goes away when the volume is turned up and enough force is applied.