All knowledge, the totality of all questions and answers, is contained in the dog.

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.

A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

We were expelled from Paradise, but it was not destroyed. The expulsion from Paradise was in one sense a piece of good fortune, for if we had not been expelled, Paradise would have had to be destroyed.

When one has once accepted and absorbed Evil, it no longer demands to be believed.

People who walk across dark bridges, past saints, with dim, small lights. Clouds which move across gray skies past churches with towers darkened in the dusk. One who leans against granite railing gazing into the evening waters, His hands resting on old stones.

The door could not be heard slamming; they had probably left it open, as is the custom in homes where a great misfortune has occurred.