The one good thing about repeating your mistakes is that you know when to cringe

It was only when I lay there on the rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good. Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not between states nor between social classes nor between political parties, but right through every human heart, through all human hearts. And that is why I turn back to the years of my imprisonment and say, sometimes to the astonishment of those about me, bless you, prison, for having been a part of my life.

It takes a fool to rush off to war!

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

Human beings are better and lazier than their rules and instructions.

Any fool can bomb a train, but just try sorting out the mess.

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