You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.
Milan KunderaFor a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence?
Milan KunderaThe bloody massacre in Bangladesh quickly covered over the memory of the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia, the assassination of Allende drowned out the groans of Bangladesh, the war in the Sinai Desert made people forget Allende, the Cambodian massacre made people forget Sinai, and so on and so forth until ultimately everyone lets everything be forgotten.
Milan Kundera