“I am a monk,” says Hue as imperturbably as ever. “I do nothing against the government. I live in silence and I pray. I have been in prison for two hundred days now, for no reason that I can tell. But it does not matter to me. Buddha is my only judge. If you want, bring me a gallon of gasoline, and I will burn myself right here. Dying twenty years from now or dying now is all the same to me. Or have your soldiers kill me, or let me die of starvation. It is all the same. I am not afraid of your threats. One day when you are a more serious man you will understand what I mean.”
— Doan Van Toai and David Chanoff, The Vietnamese Gulag, 287
