I never imagined that so many days would ultimately make such a small life.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

"Don't you want to join us?" I was recently asked by an acquaintance when he ran across me alone after midnight in a coffeehouse that was already almost deserted. "No, I don't," I said.

One must fight to get to the top, especially if one starts at the bottom.

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.

The notion of the infinite expanse and copiousness of the cosmos is the result of the mixture, carried to the extreme limit, of laborious creation and free self-determination.

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