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

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.

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.

If I could repeat it, people passing by would be enlightened and go free.

It's so much easier to have no expectations than to have big ones.

I will write my way into another life.

The preaching that this world needs most is the sermons in shoes that are walking with Jesus Christ.

Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.

Luck, be a lady tonight.

It all comes down to serving the one who are fighting along side you,watching your back, putting a weapon in your hand when you need it most.

This victory is in large part due to the Internet... For the first time, a coalition of NGOs has had an influence on the security of the entire world without being a superpower.

The real test of leadership isn't where you start out. It's where you end up.