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

It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.

Not death itself, but only the moral preparation for it, holds terrors.

You took my freedom away a long time ago and you can't give it back because you haven't got it yourself.

A fish does not campaign against fisheries-it only tries to slip through the mesh.

Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

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