How easy it was to lie when one had to lie!

This is what I like, sitting at a table and watching people go by. It does something to your outlook on life. The Anglo-Saxons make a great mistake not staring at people from a sidewalk table.

In view of the fact that I surround myself with numbskulls now, I shall die among numbskulls, and on my deathbed shall be surrounded by numbskulls who will not understand what I am saying ... Whom am I sleeping with these days ? Franz Kafka.

It always gets late with you. - Is that a compliment?

And no book, and possibly no painting, when it is finished, is ever exactly like the first dream of it.

I can't write if someone else is in the house, not even the cleaning woman.

How easy it was to lie when one had to lie!