Do you know how an ugly woman feels? Do you know what it is to be ugly all your life and inside to feel that you are beautiful? It is very rare.

It could be worse,' Passini said respectfully. "There is nothing worse than war." Defeat is worse." I do not believe it," Passini said still respectfully. "What is defeat? You go home.

If a writer stops observing he is finished. But he does not have to observe consciously nor think how it will be useful. Perhaps that would be true at the beginning. But later everything he sees goes into the great reserve of things he knows or has seen.

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

I've been in love (truly) with five women, the Spanish Republic and the 4th Infantry Division.

For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle.