The state we find ourselves in is sinful quite independent of guilt.

Writing means revealing oneself to excess.

It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.

We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

If they were shocked, then Gregor had no further responsibility and could be calm. But if they took everything calmly, he he, too, had no reason to get excited and could, if he hurried, actually be at the station by eight o'clock.

Follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.