No one has the right to enter literature without fresh new ideas. We’ve got too many dexterous drudges as it is.

- Jan Neruda

At least when one speaks of oneself one is passionate, well-informed and specific.

- Jan Neruda

Men are jealous of every woman, even when they don’t have the slightest interest in her themselves.

- Jan Neruda

I know that no reader ever asks a question. A writer must force his favors upon his readers.

- Jan Neruda

I hear there are people who actually enjoy moving. Sounds like a disease to me - they must be unstable. Though it does have it’s poetry, I’ll allow t…

- Jan Neruda

The two men were greedily hunched over the table, like two wolves disputing a carcass, but their muttered speech in the echoing hall resembled more t…

- Jan Neruda