Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat.

Let us reconcile ourselves to the mysterious rhythm of our destinies, such as they must be in this world of space and time.

I have had a number of threatening letters each week, some telling me the actual time and method of my death, and I don't like it.

For the first time I heard shots fired in anger, heard bullets strike flesh or whistle through the air.

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

You see these dictators up on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. They're afraid of words and thought. ... They make frantic efforts to bar our thoughts and words. ... A state of society where men may not speak their mind - where children denounce their parents to the police - where a businessman or small shopkeeper ruins his competitor by telling tales about his private opinion. Such a state of society cannot long endure if it is continually in contact with the healthy outside world.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.