The Unbearable Lightness of Being

"Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in day out, is mute. Only chance can speak to us. We read its message much as gypsies read the images made by coffee grounds at the bottom of a cup."

"Being in a foreign country means walking a tightrope high above the ground without the net afforded a person by the country where he has family, colleagues and friends, and where he can easily say what he has to say in a language he has known from childhood."

Milan Kundera