Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.

For in the end, it is all about memory, its sources and its magnitude, and, of course, its consequences.

Politicians, they give the visible aspect of the change, but the change, the root, the anchor are in young people.

One thing is that [Tibetans] should not give up hope. That's - even [if] it lasts a century. My discussions with the Dalai Lama always were about that.

Writing should not be routine; writing should actually be the opposite of procedural because otherwise the written word would become a routine word.

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

I was the accuser, God the accused. My eyes were open and I was alone - terribly alone in a world without God and without (hu)man(ity).