Vaclav havel

It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.

I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect.

There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side.

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

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.

Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.

Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have - by disrupting that order - a way of surprising.

Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line:...