I have spent my life resisting the desire to end it.

Nothing is as deceptive as a photograph.

One of the most effective means of seduction that Evil has is the challenge to struggle. It is like the struggle with women, whichends in bed. A married man's true deviations from the path of virtue are, rightly understood, never gay.

Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light.

Heaven is dumb, echoing only the dumb.

When K. looked at the castle, often it seemed to him as if he were observing someone who sat quietly there in front of him gazing, not lost in thought and so oblivious of everything, but free and untroubled, as if he were alone with nobody to observe him, and yet must notice that he was observed, and all the same remained with his calm not even slightly disturbed; and really - one did not know whether it was cause or effect - the gaze of the observer could not remain concentrated there, but slid away.

If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.