The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.

They say ignorance is bliss.... they're wrong

I answer one of your letters, then lie in bed in apparent calm, but my heart beats through my entire body and is conscious only of you. I belong to you; there is really no other way of expressing it, and that is not strong enough.

It would be very unjust to say that you deserted me, but that I was deserted, and sometimes terribly so, is true.

He is a free and secure citizen of the world because he is on a chain that is long enough to allow him access to all parts of the earth, and yet not so long that he could be swept over the edge of it.

I am more uncertain than I ever was; I feel only the power of life. And I am senselessly empty.

If this is what you came for, then I didn't send for you. Kafka (note to himself in journal)