In the love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body.
Milan KunderaThe novelist's ambition is not to do something better than his predecessors but to see what they did not see, say what they did not say.
Milan KunderaThe characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them. Each one has crossed a border that I myself have circumvented. It is that crossed border (the border beyond which my own "I" ends) which attracts me most. For beyond that border begins the secret the novel asks about. This novel is not the author's confession; it is an investigation of human life in the trap the world has become.
Milan Kundera