People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because theyre going deaf, it has to be played louder still. – Milan Kundera
You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself. – 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
People who make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858