“But Im not guilty, said K. theres been a mistake. How is it even possible for someone to be guilty? Were all human beings here, one like the other. That is true said the priest but that is how the ...”

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

“It puzzled K., at least it puzzled him looking at it from the policemen's point of view, that they had made him go into the room and left him alone there, where he had ten different ways of killing...”

“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.”

“In front of the law there is a doorkeeper. A man from the countryside comes up to the door and asks for entry. But the doorkeeper says he can't let him in to the law right now. The man thinks about...”

“The books we need are of the kind that act upon us like a misfortune,that makes us suffer like the death of someone we love more than ourselves, that make us feel as though we were on the verge of ...”

“No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"...No woman has ever written enough.”

“When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women”

“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”