In his memoirs, "Long Road to Freedom," he wrote that he survived during those years of captivity because he always decided to look upon his oppressor as also being a human being, also being a human being.
وی در کتاب خاطراتش، "مسیر دراز آزادی" می نویسد که از سال های اسارت جان سالم به در برد چون همیشه شکنجه گرانش را هم به چشم انسان می نگریست، به چشم انسان.