I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man.
Franz KafkaOfficials are highly educated but one-sided; in his own department an official can grasp whole trains of thought from a single word, but let him have something from another department explained to him ... he won't understand a word of it.
Franz KafkaHe is a free and secure citizen of the world because he is on a chain that is long enough to allow him access to all parts of the earth, and yet not so long that he could be swept over the edge of it.
Franz KafkaIf there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.
Franz Kafka