Tell me, where in life is there a value that would make us consider suicide uncalled for on principle! Love? Or friendship? I guarantee that friendsh… - Milan Kundera

پرسش بااهمیت را فقط یک کودک می‌تواند طرح کند. درواقع همیشه ساده‌ترین پرسش‌ها بااهمیت‌ترین پرسش‌هاست و پاسخی برای آنها وجود ندارد. پرسش‌هایی که نمی‌توان به آنها پاسخ داد، درست همان چیزی است که محدودیت‌های امکانات بشر را نشان می‌دهد و مرزهای هستی ما را تعیین می‌کند.

[Kafka] transformed the profoundly antipoetic material of a highly bureaucratized society into the great poetry of the novel; he transformed a very ordinary story of a man who cannot obtain a promised job . . . into myth, into epic, into a kind of beauty never before seen.

Man knows he cannot embrace the universe with all it's sums and stars. But he finds it unbearable to be condemned to lose the second infinity as well, the one so close, so nearly within reach. Tamina lost the infinity of her love, I lost my father, we all lose whatever we do, because if it is perfection we are after, we must go to the heart of the matter, and we can never quite reach it.