"Hell is other people."

"One always dies too soon or too late. And yet existence is there, it's your measure."

"There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it."

"I do not give a damn about the dead. They died for the [Communist] Party and the Party can decide what it wants. I practice a live man's politics, for the living."

"The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it."