I'm not a political person, and their ambitions are not mine. They want power. I don't want power.

A man who is fighting for the future of mankind is not waiting for torture, he's waiting for -- the Revolution.

If the victims are my problem, the killers are yours.

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

For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile.

Acutely aware of the poverty of my means, language became obstacle. At every page I thought, 'That's not it.' So I began again with other verbs and other images. No, that wasn't it either. But what exactly was that it I was searching for? It must have been all that eludes us, hidden behind a veil so as not to be stolen, usurped and trivialized. Words seemed weak and pale.

Life is not a fist. Life is an open hand waiting for some other hand to enter it.