"And though various organizations in America and England collected money and sent food parcels to these refugees, nothing was ever received by the Spanish."

"It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination."

"After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile, these people remain intact in spirit. They are armed with a transcendent faith they have never won, and yet they have never accepted defeat."

"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."

"Oasis can't be summed up in one word. I could do a sentence: Boys from council estate made it very, very big."

"Do all things with love."

"If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance."

"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."