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

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

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

Despite official drivel about clean bombs and tactical nuclear weapons, anyone who can read a newspaper or listen to a radio knows that some of us mortals have the power to destroy the human race and man's home on earth. We need not even make war; only by preparing, by playing with our new weapons, we poison the air, the water, the soil of our plants, damage the health of the living, and weaken the chances of the newborn.

If I practised sex, out of moral conviction, that was one thing; but to enjoy it... seemed a defeat.

[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.

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