You can’t totally rebel, otherwise you have to go live on your own, on a desert island. It’s as simple as that.
Your Village may be different from other people’s Villages, but we are all prisoners.
It was a place that is trying to destroy the individual by every means possible; trying to break his spirit, so that he accepts that he is No. 6 and will live there happily as No. 6 for ever after. And this is the one rebel that they can’t break.
I was going to be lynched. I had to go into hiding in the mountains for two weeks.
Music makes a quiet mind.
A still tongue makes a happy life.
I’m not a number, I’m a free man.
Marriage is a wonderful thing.
Questions are a burden to others; answers are a prison for oneself.
The greatest evil that one has to fight constantly, every minute of the day until one dies, is the worst part of oneself.
I will not make any deals with you. I’ve resigned. I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered. My life is my own.