I do not see myself as a footnote to someone else's life.

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.

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.

The only way I can pay back for what fate and society have handed me is to try, in minor totally useless ways, to make an angry sound against injustice.

Kill your fear and rule the world.

Book:Sharing of life and experiences with other people.This is lifetime notes for all generations.

I think I'm more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write.

Bonds and the pangs of hunger are excellent prophet doctors for the wits.

In computers, every 'new explosion' was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.

I have a lot of nervous energy. Work is my best way of channelling that into something productive unless I want to wind up assaulting the postman or gardener.

I like my body, I like to have fun with what I put on, but I also want to remain classic. So I guess my signature is sexy and eclectic but classic.

From beginning to end, the novel [Dissemblers] took about three and a half years to write. I didn't write it chronologically.

I wish I could say I had any idea what I was doing when I designed characters. I just take things I like and make my version of it.

The sanity of society is a balance of a thousand insanity's.