I do not see myself as a footnote to someone else's life..

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 mo….

stop spying on the lawful citizenry. Democracy and dossiers go ill together. It is all right for God but all wrong for the State to keep its eye on s….

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….

the private conscience is the last and only protection of the civilized world..

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,..….

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

Americans did not acquire their fear neurosis as the result of a traumatic experience - war devasting their country, pestilence sweeping the land, fa….

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

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

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

Public opinion, though slow as lava, in the end forces governments towards more sanity, more justice. My heroes and heroines are all private citizens..

perhaps these men in the House Caucus Room [Committee on Un-American Activities] are determined to spread silence: to frighten those voices which wil….

Dachau has been my own lifelong point of no return. Between the moment when I walked through the gate of that prison, with its infamous motto, 'Arbei….

All amateur travellers have experienced horror journeys, long or short, sooner or later, one way or another. As a student of disaster, I note that we….

The human spirit can be indomitable and it is this rare quality that is not at all to be expected that makes survivors of us all, the human race in t….

The only way I can pay back for what fate and society have handed me is to try, in minor totally useless ways, to make an angry sound against injusti….

All politicians are bores and liars and fakes. I talk to people..

Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit..

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