There are only two kinds of government, the scarcely tolerable and the absolutely unbearable.

-Dafoe,JohnW
Characteristic remark, quoted in Murray Donnelly Dafoe of the Free Press (1968).

The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

-Kundera, Milan
   Title of novel.

So writing ismy sole remaining vice.It is an addiction, an illusory release, a presumptuous taming of reality, a way of expressing lightly the unbearable.

-Updike,John Hoyer
  Self-Consciousness,VI.'On Being A Self Forever'.