You have to stop living in order to write.

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.

He could tune her, bringing out her better instincts and filtering out her lesser ones.

I think the idea of the lone tormented artist - which we can apply to others - I think that it needs to be revisited. Jack Kerouac needs to be seen in the context of a lot of other artistic activity.

I've just put my heart and soul in a song and need at least a week to recover.

The ultimate source of my mental happiness is my peace of mind. Nothing can destroy this except my own anger.

True freedom is an inward state of being. Once it is attained, no situation in the world can bind one or limit one's freedom.

It's fun to get together and have something good to eat at least once a day. That's what human life is all about - enjoying things.

It's not a big thing, but I guess it's true--big things are often just small things that are noticed.

The oldest and best known evil was ever more supportable than one that was new and untried.

I am very good at what I do. I am better at it than anybody else.

I didn't really feel 100 percent comfortable until we started working on the 2004 election.