I look on my life as raw material for my novels: that's just the way I am, and it frees me from any inhibitions.

...I would like to live a little bit longer in this beautiful concentration camp.

I refuse to adapt or integrate myself.

Talking is not enough; words don't clarify anything. I'll have to hit upon something, but what?

There's just one revolution that I can take seriously, and that's a police revolution.

Of course, living is another way of killing oneself: its drawback is that it takes so horribly long.

I am sick of atrocities, though these are now the natural order of our world. And I would still like to act!

I tried to depict the human face of this history, I wanted to write a book that people would actually want to read.

Nonexistence. The society of the nonexistent. In the street yesterday a nonexistent person trod on my foot with his nonexistent foot.

One cannot start a new life, you can only continue the old one.

Myslím, že na místa, kde se odvíjely rozhodující události našich životů, stojí za to občas zavítat, abychom zjistili: nemáme sami se sebou nic společného.

I wonder if that's how darkness wins, by convincing us to trap it inside ourselves, instead of emptying it out.I don't want it to win.

There’s a fine line between gossip and history, when one is talking about kings.

Creative person’s spirit and soul dance with passion and imagination.

Organisations are innovating quicker than ever. Your members need to excel from being a team player to a team builder.

I am always at a loss to know how much to believe of my own stories.

The unforgivable political sin is vanity the killer diet is sour grapes.

Syria is geographically and politically in the middle of the Middle East. That is why we are in contact with most of the problems forever, let us say, whether directly or indirectly.

We must do the thing we must Before the thing we may; We are unfit for any trust Till we can and do obey.

Furniture and food are ways that people define their attitude toward life. They'll buy better stuff if it's offered to them.

Sometimes you had to take a look at yourself and then look away.