Milan Kundera, The Book Of Laughter And Forgetting Quotes

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.

Oh lovers! be careful in those dangerous first days! once you've brought breakfast in bed you'll have to bring it forever, unless you want to be accused of lovelessness and betrayal.

For he was aware of the great secret of life: Women don't look for handsome men. Women look for men who have had beautiful women. Having an ugly mistress is therefore a fatal mistake.

The history of music is mortal, but the idiocy of the guitar is eternal.

Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding.

...because love is continual interrogation. I don't know of a better definition of love.

[mother] belonged to a realm of other creatures: smaller, lighter, more easily blown away.