Technological measures are important, but equally important is... a consciousness of the commonality of all living beings and an emphasis on shared responsibility.

Twenty or thirty years ago, in the army, we had a lot of obscure adventures, and years later we tell them at parties, and suddenly we realize that those two very difficult years of our lives have become lumped together into a few episodes that have lodged in our memory in a standardized form, and are always told in a standardized way, in the same words. But in fact that lump of memories has nothing whatsoever to do with our experience of those two years in the army and what it has made of us.

I cannot imagine that I could strive for something if I did not carry hope in me.

The truth is not simply what you think it is; it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why, and how it is said.

If a single writer in a country is in chains, then there are some links of that chain that binds us all.

Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations.

The world is not divided into two types of being, one superior and the other merely surrounding it. Being, nature, the universe - they are all one infinitely complex and mysterious metaorganism of which we are but a part, though a unique one.