Once you get a tyranny, you don't easily get rid of it. Much better to remember about eternal vigilance.

What the trees can do handsomely-greening and flowering, fading and then the falling of leaves-human beings cannot do with dignity, let alone without pain.

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

There were ten concentration camps in France from 1939 on.

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.

My definition of what makes a journey wholly or partially horrible is boredom.

All politicians are bores and liars and fakes. I talk to people.