What do we expect from criticism? People appear to want it, but why?

A great artist is never a closed subject, but this catalogue is a milestone production, as useful as it is beautiful.

Some critics claim to know what art has to be and do, and consider it their task to steer art along the path they have chosen. Others receive art gladly, and try to distinguish degrees of excellence.

Like books, artists have their fates.

No man should ever completely realize his dreams. What else would there then be to live for?

Only one word describes a woman widowed for the second time on her wedding night – cursed.

Change requires one to start now here or nowhere. Both places require one to pass through the same starting point – today, right now” from Cinderella In Focus

My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have.

People always grumbled. If things went well they wanted them to go better. Give them comfort and they wanted luxuries.

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.

Was it really so far-fetched to think that words had a way of shaping a person's whole life?

I think that the formation of [DNA's] structure by Watson and Crick may turn out to be the greatest developments in the field of molecular genetics in recent years.

We're not given the chance to choose absolute truth. Truth's always two-faced. The only thing we have is the right to reject the lie we find most repugnant.

I venture to say that it's not enough to respect and tolerate religions other than our own.