"What are you working on?” Mr. K. was asked. Mr. K. replied: “I’m having a hard time; I’m preparing my next mistake."

"Happy is the people who need no heroes."

"Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer."

"One must live well to know what living is."

"For though the world has stood up and stopped the bastard, the bitch that bore him is in heat again."

"It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk."

"What is robbing a bank compared to founding one?"

"As crimes pile up, they become invisible."

"If you join the rat race — you're in the race of rats."

"For what's the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?"

"When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up."

"Why be a man when you can be a success."

"Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes"

"Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves."

"We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it's all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It's the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians."

"Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good."

"What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?"

"Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life."

"All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living."

"Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is at their heels."

"People who understand everything get no stories."

"He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news."

"Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are."

"What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?"