Public opinion, though slow as lava, in the end forces governments towards more sanity, more justice. My heroes and heroines are all private citizens.

Officialdom is hostile to inquiring outsiders.

In the end, in England, when you want to find out how people are feeling, you always go to the pubs.

Freedom' is the most expensive possession there is; it has to be paid for with loneliness.

We lisp in numbers, in the U.S. We are deluged by ample, often mysterious statistics. ... Like many in this country, I have come to regard statistics with doubt and merely as a hint of the probable shape of fact.

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

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