I was always lucky in my bad luck.

- Bohumil Hrabal

I expect them to tell me things about myself I don't know.

- Bohumil Hrabal

And so everything I see in this world, it all moves backward and forward at the same time, like a black-smith's bellows, like everything in my press,…

- Bohumil Hrabal

Today's Gypsies, who have lived in Prague for only two generations, light a ritual fire wherever they work, a nomads' fire crackling only for the joy…

- Bohumil Hrabal

I always loved twilight: it was the only time of day I had the feeling that something important could happen. All things were more beautiful bathed i…

- Bohumil Hrabal

I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop.

- Bohumil Hrabal

Lost in my dreams, I somehow cross at the traffic signals, bumping into street lamps or people, yet moving onward, exuding fumes of beer and grime, y…

- Bohumil Hrabal

I can be by myself because I'm never lonely, I'm simply alone, living in my heavily populated solitude, a harum-scarum of infinity and eternity, and …

- Bohumil Hrabal

It's interesting how young poets think of death while old fogies think of girls.

- Bohumil Hrabal