“Passionless is vulgar ("Metier: Why I Don't Write Like Franz Kafka")”

“I have associated myself with failed scientists in order to associate myself with failed irony. ("Metier: Why I Don't Write Like Franz Kafka")”

“When I encountered these haunting words from Franz Kafka, I realized exactly why this light sermon about the search for God had struck such a nerve: "Everyday life is the greatest detective story ever written. Every second, without noticing, we pass by thousands of corpses and crimes. That's the routine of our lives.”

“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.”

“Why don't you ever use your strength on me?" she said.Because love means renouncing strength," said Franz softly.”

“Oh, you know what bloggers are like, they write and write and write. I don't know why, because they're not being paid.”