I, however, cannot force myself to use "meat drugs" to cheat on my loneliness.

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

If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read it?

One has just been sent out as a biblical dove, has found nothing green, and slips back into the darkness of the Ark

One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

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