Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring--it was peace.

Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.

All of man’s life among his kind is nothing other than a battle to seize the ears of others.

The unbearable lightness of being.

Mankind’s true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view) consists of its attitudes towards those who are at its mercy: animals.

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.