I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person.

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

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

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

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.

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

Between his eyes, there were four lines, the marks of such misery as children should never feel. He spoke with that wonderful whisky voice that so many Spanish children have, and he was a tough and entire little boy.