"Memory is a strange thing. It doesn't work like I thought it did. We are so used to thinking of it as a camera or a tape recorder, but it's not like that at all. It's more like a painter. It creates a picture, but it's not always the same picture."

A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.

"You don't have to be perfect to be amazing."