I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.

As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.

Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.

Knowledge we have. Anyone who strives for it with particular intensity is suspect of striving against it.

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.

Life is merely terrible; I feel it as few others do. Often — and in my inmost self perhaps all the time — I doubt whether I am a human being.