That's the hardest thing of all--never to become cynical, never to lose faith, never to become indifferent.

What if it turns out there really are witches and vampires and werewolves living right here alongside us? After all, what better disguise could there be than to get your image enshrined in the culture of the mass media? Anything that's described in artistic terms and shown in the movies stops being frightening and mysterious. For real horror you need the spoken word, you need an old grandpa sitting on a bench, scaring the grandkids in the evening.

Fairy tales lie just as much as statistics do, but sometimes you can find a grain of truth in them.

That's the hardest thing of all--never to become cynical, never to lose faith, never to become indifferent.

Life consists of nothing but exceptions.

When leaders betray their people and the people don't overthrow them, it's not just the leaders who should be blamed.

Czech beer in bottles is the corpse of real beer in a glass coffin.