They're talking about things of which they don't have the slightest understanding, anyway. It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

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.

In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.

I carry the bars within me.

Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.

Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested.

The dream reveals the reality which conception lags behind. That is the horror of life-the terror of art.