You have to stop living in order to write.

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

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

Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives.

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

From the earliest wars of men to our last heart-breaking worldwide effort, all we could do was kill ourselves. Now we are able to kill the future.

Officialdom is hostile to inquiring outsiders.