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

They were offered the choice between becoming kings or the couriers of kings. The way children would, they all wanted to be couriers. Therefore there are only couriers who hurry about the world, shouting to each other - since there are no kings - messages that have become meaningless. They would like to put an end to this miserable life of theirs but they dare not because of their oaths of service.

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

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.

If something good has lost its way into you, it will make its escape overnight. I know you.

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

Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.