A Moment of War: A Memoir of the Spanish Civil War

All civilizations at some time have fallen into this total terror, when the mystery of life was a kind of panic only to be assuaged by the spilling of blood.

She was just a bulldog out there tonight. I'd go to war with her.

Whatever time I promote outside of the classroom toward activism is my own business. I did oppose the war in Iraq. I would do it again.

I expected to be shot at any moment and if they had done I would have understood, that they couldn't take risks with someone foolhardy or so unpredictable.

That last winter was a tragic story and I got no personal honour out of it but I was a witness to it.