The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead. – Milan Kundera
No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches. – Milan Kundera
Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory. – Milan Kundera
Dogs are our link to paradise. They dont know evil or jealousy or discontent. – Milan Kundera
The Palestinians want a state, but they have to give peace in return. What theyre trying to do in the United Nations is to get a state without giving Israel peace or giving Israel peace and security. And I think thats, thats wrong. That should not succeed. That should, that should fail. – Benjamin Netanyahu