The less you speak, the more you will hear.

When one is already on the edge of the grave, why not resist?

Freedom or prison--what's the difference? A man must develop unwavering will power subject only to his reason.

Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.

People who are at ease with their consciences always look happy.

Who has the skill to make a narrow, obstinate human being aware of others' far-off grief and joy, to make him understand dimensions and delusions he himself has never lived through? Propaganda, coercion, and scientific proofs are powerless. But happily, in our world there is a way. It is art, and it is literature.

The secret is that when you've been pitched head first into hell you just write about it