Officialdom is hostile to inquiring outsiders.

stop spying on the lawful citizenry. Democracy and dossiers go ill together. It is all right for God but all wrong for the State to keep its eye on sparrows.

People may correctly remember the events of twenty years ago (a remarkable feat), but who remembers his fears, his disgusts, his tone of voice? It is like trying to bring back the weather of that time.

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

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

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.

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