The greatest evil that one has to fight constantly, every minute of the day until one dies, is the worst part of oneself.
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.
You can’t totally rebel, otherwise you have to go live on your own, on a desert island. It’s as simple as that.
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.