16 Quotes by Josef Škvorecký

The alchemy of time transforms everything into comedy. Everything. Even crucifixion.

Social conscience is a fashion, it changes every year.

We may think we live for wisdom, but in fact we're living for the the pleasure wisdom brings us.

Their is beauty everywhere on earth.

Write whatever you want. Danny, my dear friend, write and tell me what life really is.

I notice that the artists, if that is what they are, at the tables around, have noticed my Scandinavian. Their artist girlfriends have noticed her New York fashions. And I never cease to notice her beauty, sad, as all beauty is, because it is not eternal.

Whatever happens, we’ll all meet in that great card-index in the sky.

writers who cast about for something new will scarcely ever be great, for great things could not have escaped the attention of earlier observers.

There is something that falls short of perfection in every book, without exception, something influenced by the age, even something ridiculous; just like everyone, without exception, has weaknesses.