Huge organizations and me don't get along. They're too inflexible, waste too much time, and have too many stupid people.

It is the same with anything - you have to learn through your own experience, paying your own way. You can't learn it from a book.

Holding this soft, small living creature in my lap this way, though, and seeing how it slept with complete trust in me, I felt a warm rush in my chest. I put my hand on the cat's chest and felt his heart beating. The pulse was faint and fast, but his heart, like mine, was ticking off the time allotted to his small body with all the restless earnestness of my own.

A person's last moments are an important thing. You can't choose how you're born but you can choose how you die.

No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves. That's all.

No, I don't want your money. The world moves less by money than by what you owe people and what they owe you. I don't like to owe anybody anything, so I keep to myself as much on the lending side as I can.

Perhaps most people in the world aren’t trying to be free, Kafka. They just think they are. It’s all an illusion. If they really were set free, most people would be in a real pickle. You’d better remember that. People actually prefer not being free?