... since the history of words is a mainspring of our intellectual and emotional character.

... misfortune and creativity go together.

Language, because it is imperfect, cannot encompass experience in its raw and primal condition. To verbalize emotion and action is to decrease their impact.

We freeze up because we expect a certain result or because we want things to be perfect.

The universe rewards action.

War is nothing but a duel on a larger scale.

How much more intense is the excitement wrought in the feelings of a crowd by the contemplation of human agony, than that brought about by the most appalling spectacles of inanimate matter.

Half the game is mental, the other half is being mental.

There will be more coming afterwards if we don't re-empower politicians to get organized and work together.

But now that the guerrilla fighting is over, the Spaniards are again men without a country or families or homes or work, though everyone appreciates very much what they did.

I might do a film someday for the collection. I love designing sets and creating environments, in film school and for my own presentations. I love telling stories.

Dreadful sorry mistress. Ma always said I was too silly to die