The most intense patriotism always flourishes in the rear.

To reject this inhuman Communist ideology is simply to be a human being. Such a rejection is more than a political act. It is a protest of our souls against those who would have us forget the concepts of good and evil.

A poet cannot be a Party member ... without paying the price.

The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.

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

It makes me happier, more secure, to think that I do not have to plan and manage everything for myself, that I am only a sword made sharp to smite the unclean forces, an enchanted sword to cleave and disperse them. Grant, O Lord, that I may not break as I strike! Let me not fall from Thy hand!

History is too slow for our life, for our hearts.