It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.

The man in ecstasy and the man drowning - both throw up their arms. The first to signify harmony, the second to signify strife with the elements.

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

I am always trying to convey something that can’t be conveyed, to explain something which is inexplicable, to tell about something I have in my bones, something which can be expressed only in the bones.

The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speakes he lies.

A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.