Martha Gellhorn

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

Thousand got away to other countries; thousands returned to Spain tempted by false promises of kindness. By the tens of thousands, these Spaniards died of neglect in the concentration camps.

There were ten concentration camps in France from 1939 on.

If I had written something, and I had written myself into a corner, I didn't abandon it. Because I remembered: There's always more.

I think when judges are in the position of authority, they really get bent out of shape when someone tells them they acted inappropriately.

All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.