I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.

I tell you loneliness is the thing to master. Courage and fear, love, death are only parts of it and can easily be ruled afterwards. If I make myself master my own loneliness there will be peace or safety: and perhaps these are the same.

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

Nothing is better for self-esteem than survival.

In the last camp they all ate grass, until the authorities forbade them to pull it up. They were accustomed to having the fruits of their little communal gardens stolen by the guards, after they had done all the work; but at the last camp everything was stolen.

By its existence, the Peace Movement denies that governments know best; it stands for a different order of priorities: the human race comes first.

[On the United States:] We are a wildly energetic people in our pursuit of pleasure, let alone in our pursuit of money, and we are very odd to look at as we go about our lives.