Zdeněk Buk

“Of course, those people, the dandies, the undergrounders, my contemporaries, friends... they didn’t like it. That I had changed. That I was someone completely different. What’s this nonsense that I’m doing now. I’m no being myself. I guess they were right, I don’t know. The way I took it was that I believed in it. So I took that path.”

“I lived in all kinds of places there. In studios, at friend’s houses. And then... because a man from Ústí named Šálek... he got a flat in Nusle somehow or other. But in a very specific kind of way. That is – the flat was empty, no one was living in it, right, so... he drilled out the lock, broke the door in, put his own lock there, and settled in. Well, and next door there was another empty flat that no one had lived in for a long time. So we got a heads up about it, and we did the same thing. And we lived for a number of years like that. For free.”