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

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.

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.

You should always be your greatest motivator. Never leave that power in someone else’s hands. Once you learn to love the person you are, there are no limits to the person you can become.

Bercelak’s kin kept themselves busy by sharpening weapons, reading, talking, or setting things on fire with small bursts of flame.

There is no individual salvation without collective salvation

Sedimentation in the past has often been very rapid indeed and very spasmodic. This may be called the "Phenomenon of the Catastrophic Nature of the Stratigraphical Record."

I would like to play Broadway!

With the new weapons like the atom bomb, Russia would have it, too, and use it first. It is a very difficult world. But that trouble is imminent is obvious.

Books of quotations ... afford me one of the most undemanding but satisfying forms of reading pleasure.

Faultless to a fault.

A God who fits within the confines of our conception is useless. God cannot be comprehended by man's conception or logic. God is an eternal being who transcends the framework of man's limited logic.