Ultimately, power only really listens to power, and if government is to be improved, we must be able to threaten its existence, not merely its reputation.

It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.

Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever more highly structured and to struggle against entropy.

But if I were to say who influenced me most, then I'd say Franz Kafka. And his works were always anchored in the Central European region.

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

All human suffering concerns each human being.

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