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

War happens to people, one by one. That is really all I have to say and it seems to me I have been saying it forever. Unless they are immediate victims, the majority of mankind behaves as if war was an act of God which could not be prevented; or they behave as if war elsewhere was none of their business. It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.

the ends never justify the means because IT never ends.

After a lifetime of war-watching, I see war as an endemic human disease, and governments are the carriers.

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

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.

[On Paris:] I do not know any city so beautiful and you can be unhappy there and notice your unhappiness less, having the city to look at.