I preferred to set off and perish in search of my own kind than to live a lonely half-life of physical comfort and spiritual death on this murderous island.

Don’t you bully me with your politeness!

In my youth, it was my good luck to have a few good teachers, men and women, who came into my head and lit a match.

Sitting in an office for TOO long is not natural, perhaps, so that's why we should change it. I didn't say that out-and-out capitalism, which reduces humanity to dollar figures, is natural.

The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar. It was natural that, bereft and desperate as I was, in the throes of unremitting suffering. I should turn to God

War subjects itself to transportation in a way that we find acceptable.

To me, religion is about our dignity, not our depravity.