Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within.

It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.

If you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss.

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

Only the moment counts. It determines life.

Nervous states of the worst sort control me without pause. Everything that is not literature bores me and I hate it. I lack all aptitude for family life except, at best, as an observer. I have no family feeling and visitors make me almost feel as though I were maliciously being attacked.

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.