To truly hate is an art one learns with time.

People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.

Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go.

Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.

There are no second chances in life, except to feel remorse.

Never trust girls who let themselves be touched right away. But even less those who need a priest for approval.

The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.

Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human.

Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.

Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them.

People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.

In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.

I guess I started too early because I just thought it was something fun to do.

The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created.

What you call flaws are really just scars and wounds accumulated over a lifetime.

I think the things that make me excited are only best when they're shared with people.

Once you sleep on feathers you can't go back to sleeping on the floor.

One thing I really want to explore is writing.

My parents were of the generation who thought they were the children of a free Czechoslovakia, the only democracy in central Europe.

Of all the things I have been privileged to do and experience in life, the highest honor has been fatherhood. Wishing Fathers everywhere a wonderful day.

If the person who can effectively sanction ill-conceived wars can play the electric guitar, which is a symbol of rebellion, then that whole worldview becomes confused.