Follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

The Diabolical sometimes assumes the aspect of the Good, or even embodies itself completely in its form. If this remains concealedfrom me, I am of course defeated, for this Good is more tempting than the genuine Good.

it is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.' 'A melancholy conclusion,' said K. 'It turns lying into a universal principle.

Written kisses don't reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts.

Palestine needs earth, but it does not need lawyers.

The crows maintain that a single crow could destroy the heavens. There is no doubt of that, but it proves nothing against the heavens, for heaven simply means: the impossibility of crows.

To write prescriptions is easy, but to come to an understanding with people is hard.