Biografia

Instructed his friend Max Brod to burn all his work after his death. Max Brod decided to publish it instead.

His two brothers died as infants in the late 1880s and his three sisters were murdered in the Holocaust.

None of his work was published in his lifetime and was only found after his death.

He died of tuberculosis which had moved up to his larynx and robbed him of the ability to speak in his last days.

Inventor of the Builder's Hard Hat.

Women are traps which lie in wait for men everywhere, in order to drag them down into the Finite.

A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

[Castle] Only a total stranger could ask such a question. Are there control agencies? There are only control agencies! Of course they aren't meant to find errors, in the vulgar sense of that term, since no errors occur, and even if an error does occur, as in your case, who can finally say that it is an error?

[Trial] It's characteristic of this judicial system that a man is condemned not only when he's innocent but also in ignorance.

[Amerika] It's impossible to defend oneself in the absence of goodwill.