It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.

It is unthinkable in the twentieth century to fail to distinguish between what constitutes an abominable atrocity that must be prosecuted and what constitutes that "past" which "ought not to be stirred up.

We have to condemn publicly the very idea that some people have the right to repress others... When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers ... we are ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.

Bless you, prison, for having been in my life!

If you wanted to put the world to rights, who should you begin with: yourself or others?

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.

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