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.

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.

This is the crepe. This is the cider. This is how we live and eat.

The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.

Half a man's life is devoted to what he calls improvements, yet the original had some quality which is lost in the process.

Generally speaking I would say I enjoy the smaller films more because there's a less sense of pressure and often the material is more unusual.

We love to entertain audiences and this picture does that - it's romantic, it's funny, it's got a nice message and I think it's a gift to the audience to be able to enjoy this movie.

Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.

If we want to make a statement about a man's nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed.

My girlfriend doesn't think I'm funny at all.

Leaders don't look for recognition from others, leaders look for others to recognize.

A man may not always be what he appears to be, but what he appears to be is always a significant part of what he is.