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.

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

One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.

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

What I write is different from what I say, what I say is different from what I think, what I think is different from what I ought to think and so it goes further into the deepest darkness.

You can choose to be free , but it's last decision you'll ever make

There are questions we could not get past if we were not set free from them by our very nature.