Surely people should eventually cease to be surprised at anything? And yet they continue to be.

When you're young, you haven't the experience, when you're old you haven't the strength.

There is eternal simplicity to a solution once it has been discovered!

If one is a professional soldier, it is part of one's job to die sooner or later.

Woe to that nation whose literature is disturbed by the intervention of power. Because that is not just a violation against "freedom of print," it is the closing down of the heart of the nation, a slashing to pieces of its memory.

I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances - from my grave even more successfully and more irrefutably than in my lifetime.

There can be no acceptable future without an honest analysis of the past.