The cliché organizes life; it expropriates people's identity; it becomes ruler, defense lawyer, judge, and the law.

The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and ... often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.

Modern science kills God and takes his place on the vacant throne. Science is the sole legitimate arbiter of all relavent truth.

In any case, ideals are something we strive for; they are somewhere on the horizon of our efforts; they provide meaning and direction; they are not, however, static quotas that we either fulfill or do not.

When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete.

In my opinion, theater shouldn't give advice to citizens.

But if I were to say who influenced me most, then I'd say Franz Kafka. And his works were always anchored in the Central European region.