Laughing deeply is living deeply.

Indeed, the only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate. Only the most naive of questions are truly serious.

The degree of slowness is directionally proportional to the intensity of memory. The degree of speed is directionally proportional to the intensity of forgetting.

The serial number of a human specimen is the face, that accidental and unrepeatable combination of features. It reflects neither character nor soul, nor what we call the self. The face is only the serial number of a specimen

We all reject out of hand the idea that the love of our life may be something light or weightless; we presume our love is what must be, that without it our life would no longer be the same; we feel that Beethoven himself, gloomy and awe-inspiring, is playing the “Es muss sein!” to our own great love.

The moment Kafka attracts more attenetion than Joseph K., Kafka's posthumous death begins.

To rebel against being born a woman seemed as foolish to her as to take pride in it.