“We are not allowed to have hearts, under penalty of being hooted down.”

“I think we make our own hell down hereduring our life times-the penalty for not being true;the punishment for fear;we suffer the consequences”

“And my heart beat faster for the mountains of eastern Europe, finally, beat faster for the one hope that somewhere we might find in that primitive countryside the answer to why under God this suffering was allowed to exist - why under God it was allowed to begin, and how under God it might be ended. I had not the courage to end it, I knew, without that answer.”

“All we actually have is our body and its muscles that allow us to be under our own power.”

“If this were a made-up story, it would begin at night, with a storm blowing and owls hooting and rattling noises under the bed.”

“To speak and act truth with constancy and precision is nearly as difficult, and perhaps as meretorious, as to speak it under intimidation or penalty”