When I was young, the early death of my father cast a shadow over me - and I was afraid to die before all my literary plans came true. But between 30 and 40 years of age my attitude to death became quite calm and balanced. I feel it is a natural, but no means the final, milestone of one's existence.

... but food eaten quickly isn't food.

A great writer is, so to speak, a secret government in his country

The earlier, the more fun. Why put it off? It’s the atomic age!

Let all of us who shared the prison soup meet again in better times!

The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. "One word of truth outweighs the world.

In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousandfold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers . . . we are ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.