Never invite to dinner: those who won't decide until the last minute; those who come more than half an hour late; those who want to bring along two or three friends; drunks; monologists; those who stay until three o'clock in the morning; those who think that conversation means having an argument; those who take a high moral tone; those who are stupid, ugly, or dull. Enforcement of these rules will enable one to eat alone every night in comfort.

Life is what it makes you.

Wealth makes the laws that poverty must obey.

Striving toward a goal puts a more pleasing construction on our advance toward death.

I am kept in bondage by the moles of my beloved.

When my beloved arrives, I yawn. When my beloved departs, I weep.

Kafka: cries of helplessness in twenty powerful volumes.