Franz Kafka

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.

It's hard to imagine anyone interested in film not being a fan of Alfred Hitchcock because he's such a key influence on the entire history of cinema - it's hard to escape his shadow.

All sides in a trial want to hide at least some of the truth.

Imagine a world alive with incomprehensible objects, and shimmering with an endless variety of movement and innumerable gradations of colour. Imagine a world before the 'beginning was the word.'