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

A lawyer is a person who writes a 10,000-word document and calls it a "brief."

Officials are highly educated but one-sided; in his own department an official can grasp whole trains of thought from a single word, but let him have something from another department explained to him ... he won't understand a word of it.

I am away from home and must always write home, even if any home of mine has long since floated away into eternity.

All knowledge, the totality of all questions and answers, is contained in the dog.

No," said the priest, "you don't need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary." "Depressing view," said K. "The lie made into the rule of the world.

The person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from the person I am in the company of other people. Fearless, powerful, surprising, moved as I otherwise am only when I write.