...people don't respect the morning. An alarm clock violently wakes them up, shatters their sleep like the blow of an ax, and they immediately surrender themselves to deadly haste. Can you tell me what kind of day can follow a beginning of such violence? What happens to people whose alarm clock daily gives them a small electric shock? Each day they become more used to violence and less used to pleasure.
Milan KunderaWhen I was a little boy in short pants, I dreamed about a miraculous ointment that would make me invisible. Then I became an adult, began to write, and wanted to be successful. Now I'm successful and would like to have the ointment that would make me invisible.
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 combination of a frivolous form and a serious subject immediately unmasks the truth about our dramas.
Milan Kundera