[On the United States:] We are a wildly energetic people in our pursuit of pleasure, let alone in our pursuit of money, and we are very odd to look at as we go about our lives.

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.

I learned from her that every woman is worriedabout her looks, no matter how beautiful she is.

Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come.

Research, though toilsome, is easy; imagination, though delightful, is difficult.

I've written this to keep from crying. But I am crying, only the tears won't come.

Fake sympathy is the politicians demanding more cash as they ignore the underlying crisis. They prefer money over morality.

Nothing is more acceptable than what we are born into.

The minute you think that the past was better, your present is second hand, and yourself becomes vintage - it’s okay for clothes not that great for people

Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.

I think the diversity of authors and readers is expanding, which is wonderful, because it means the type of story being told is also expanding.

I was a loser in high school.