Kafka: cries of helplessness in twenty powerful volumes.

Funerals prove that someone is really gone.

As a comforter, philosophy cannot compete with a good dinner.

The power of the past does not depend on our knowledge of it.

Many pains are imaginary, but all joys are real.

Dreams are distorted representations of desire. So are dream- analyses.

Boredom, not the will, is the mother of change. Necessity is the father.