You only have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in yo… - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Someone that you have deprived of everything is no longer in your power. He is once again entirely free.

The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either — but right through every human heart — and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained

You should rejoice that you're in prison. Here you have time to think about your soul.

"Literature cannot develop between the categories "permitted" — "not permitted" — "this you can and that you can't." Literature that is not the air of its contemporary society, that dares not warn in time against threatening moral and social dangers, such literature does not deserve the name of literature; it is only a facade. Such literature loses the confidence of its own people, and its published works are used as waste paper instead of being read.
-Letter to the Fourth National Congress of Soviet Writers"