One should mature over 20 years.

People ask me about what sacrifices I've made. I always answer: I've made no sacrifices, I've made choices.

I don't want Burma to be a basket case forever.

I was a prisoner, but I always felt free because I was not frightened So for me real freedom is freedom from fear.

Burmese authors and artists can play the role that artists everywhere play. They help to mold the outlook of a society - not the whole outlook and they are not the only ones to mold the outlook of society, but they have an important role to play there. And I think if they take up this role seriously and link it to the kind of changes were wish to bring about in our country they could be a tremendous help.

War is not the only arena where peace is done to death.

Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose.