Lovers of literature will look for the remains of the golden treasure in that shipwreck on the bottom of the sea of criticism.

When the Communist Party comes to power, it acts a lot like the mafia: If you are a loyal member in good standing, everything is yours. You're protected, even if you commit a crime.

Artists hold out the mirror to the bruises on the face of the world.

Arnošt Lustig is one of the leading contemporary Czech fiction writers, and certainly the most important Jewish writer of Bohemia to have survived the Holocaust.

There is something that falls short of perfection in every book, without exception, something influenced by the age, even something ridiculous; just like everyone, without exception, has weaknesses.

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All you have to do, I tell myself, is keep your mouth shut and look stupid. It shouldn't be that hard.

Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.

I do have tatoos, and I do wear leather, but there are other sides of me, that my film express.

(on asparagus) Europeans of the Renaissance swore by it as an aphrodisiac, and the church banned it from nunneries.

Selflessness. It should be the basis of every relationship. If a person truly cares about you, they'll get more pleasure from the way they make you feel, rather than the way you make them feel.

I went through a long period when I thought my photographs were not visible - on the wall, but not visible.

He who has love, is in God, and God is in him, for God is love.

I'm really close to all of my family.

It's funny, the whole cooking thing came out of just a random thought of writing a cookbook with my mom and my sister for fun.