"There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master."

"Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth."

"I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd."

"I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets."

"Every scar carries the quiet memory of a battle faced and survived. Such is the immutable nature of understanding — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Value people on their potential, not on their history."

"I've never been nostalgic, personally or politically - if the past was so great, how come it's history?"

"History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people."