Could K. represent the congregation all by himself? What if he had been a stranger merely visiting the church? That was more or less his position.

It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.

I see, these books are probably law books, and it is an essential part of the justice dispensed here that you should be condemned not only in innocence but also in ignorance.

You're not cross with me, though?" he said. She pulled her hand away and answered, "No, no, I'm never cross with anyone.

Am I to leave this world as a man who shies away from all conclusions?

Don't be too hasty, don't take somebody else's opinion without testing it.

Art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living

A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

Turn on, tune up, rock out.

Commander: What's that? Foaly: It's a finger, what does look like?

Our repentances are generally not so much a concern and remorse for the harm we have done, as a fear of the harm we may have brought upon ourselves.

A hermitage in the forest is the refuge of the narrow-minded misanthrope; a hammock on the ocean is the asylum for the generous distressed.

What you have inherited from your fathers, earn over again for yourselves, or it will not be yours.

I can enjoy a vacation as well as the next person, as long as I know it's a vacation and not a premature retirement.

Often have brief words laid men low and then raise them up.

I don't do the running commentary as the movie's playing. I think you should be able to watch the movie without listening to me talk while the movies playing.