I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person.

In the last camp they all ate grass, until the authorities forbade them to pull it up. They were accustomed to having the fruits of their little communal gardens stolen by the guards, after they had done all the work; but at the last camp everything was stolen.

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.

I only knew about daily life. It was said, well, it isn't everybody's daily life. That is why I started.

I daresay I was the worst bed partner in five continents.

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.

Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives.

After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile, these people remain intact in spirit. They are armed with a transcendent faith; they have never won, and yet they have never accepted defeat.

I didn't write. I just wandered about.

If I practised sex, out of moral conviction, that was one thing; but to enjoy it... seemed a defeat.

It is alleged that half a million Spanish men, women and children fled to France after the Franco victory.

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 see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person.

Between his eyes, there were four lines, the marks of such misery as children should never feel. He spoke with that wonderful whisky voice that so many Spanish children have, and he was a tough and entire little boy.

And though various organizations in America and England collected money and sent food parcels to these refugees, nothing was ever received by the Spanish.

The road passed through a curtain of pine forest and came out on a flat, rolling snow field. In this field the sprawled or bunched bodies of Germans lay thick, like some dark shapeless vegetable.

I followed the war wherever I could reach it.

Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.

Furthermore, they were constantly informed by all the camp authorities that they had been abandoned by the world: they were beggars and lucky to receive the daily soup of starvation.

There were ten concentration camps in France from 1939 on.

It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.

Then somebody suggested I should write about the war, and I said I didn't know anything about the war. I did not understand anything about it. I didn't see how I could write it.

I found out about the Spanish war because I was in Germany when it began.

Journalism at its best and most effective is education. Apparently people would not learn for themselves, nor from others.

In November you begin to know how long the winter will be.

Teenage girls like certain things I wear - or certainly did when that whole boho thing happened.

I had this urge to play the game of football, because so many people - I shouldn't say so many, a handful of people - said I couldn't do it. For me, it was one of those things that I just believe in my talent that the Lord gave me, and I wanted to take advantage of it.

We're making progress, but getting machines to replicate our ability to perceive and manipulate the world remains incredibly hard.

Yoga is the art work of awareness on the canvas of body, mind, and soul.

Fitness is like marriage. You can't cheat on it and expect it to work.

Take the challenge of your life. Reach out to your goals. There is no limit to what you can achieve.

But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions.

Not a drum was heard not a funeral note As his corse to the rampart we hurried.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

I just don't buy the tabloids.

Information usually seen as the precondition of debate is better understood as its by product.

I'm very concerned about the countries bordering Russia. But let's stay off that stuff.

When I was growing up, skateboarding was big and basketball was big.

I did this within a philosophical framework, and a moral and legal framework. And I have been turned into a cartoon of the greatest villain in the history of lobbying.

I was always insecure about the way I looked.

The world is all alike. Those that seem better than their neighbours are only more artful. They mean the same thing, though they take a different road.

Nothing happens unless something is moved.

It's not about battling the original artists when I record these songs, it's about paying tribute to them.

It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.

My mother and father didn't love each other, so they were always fighting.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

I'm a very fortunate actor. I'm blessed to be the position I'm in right now.

While we read history we make history.

I like to work with the same people when I can, and you want to get people with the same interests that you have, and the same aesthetic.