Barack Obama is president of a superpower and I'm a citizen of a small state.

I feel that the dormant goodwill in people needs to be stirred. People need to hear that it makes sense to behave decently or to help others, to place common interests above their own, to respect the elementary rules of human coexistence.

The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and ... often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.

It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs.

Nothing is more powerful than individuals acting out of their own conscience.

The only lost cause is one we give up on before we enter the struggle.

People who live in the post-totalitarian system know only too well that the question of whether one or several political parties are in power, and how these parties define and label themselves, is of far less importance than the question of whether or not it is possible to live like a human being.