PR: Do you think the destruction of the world is coming soon?
MK: That depends on what you mean by the word “soon.”
PR: Tomorrow or the day after.
MK: The feeling that the world is rushing to ruin is an ancient one.
PR: So then we have nothing to worry about.
MK: On the contrary. If a fear has been present in the human mind for ages, there must be something to it.
[Philip Roth e Milan Kundera, intervista da qui]