I have no television - I hate it.

I don't want to know movie directors. I don't want to be close to them. I don't want to interfere with their work. I don't want them to interfere with mine.

I know you have it in you, Guy," Anne said suddenly at the end of a silence, "the capacity to be terribly happy.

Everything human is alien to me.

one blow in anger [would] kill, probably, a child from aged two to eight. Those over eight would take two blows to kill.

I find the public passion for justice quite boring and artificial.

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.