A book should be the ax to break the frozen sea within us.
Franz Kafka

I also have a whole vignette of the Master. its brevity and power amaze me every time I read it.

Good software is like pornography: very hard to describe, but you recognize it right away when you see it. Guy Kawasaki
This very funny quote is the only sensible thing I ever read in a Guy Kawasaki article. Please do not think I like or even read the guy any more.

He had called me "Sir", which, in my humble estimation, is the true hallmark of the scoundrel. John B. Keane, extremely funny Irish writer

Food for thought is no substitute for the real thing.
Walt Kelly, "Putluck Pogo"

It's not easy being green ...
Kermit the frog

Life can be understood only backwards, but lived only forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard

This is my translation into English of a Spanish translation of the quote. Initially I misunderstood it (my Spanish is less then perfect), but my wrong interpretation is interesting:
Life can be understood only slowly, and only lived in a hurry.
I guess the author is myself, Frank Baldessari

I am tired of protesting for what should have been mine at birth.
M.L. King

You can't ride a man's back unless it's bent.
M.L. King
To think that some consider him an Uncle Tom ...

In an unjust nation, the place of a just man is in jail.
M.L. King

Justice is indivisible. Injustice anywhere affects justice everywhere.
M.L. King

For about 12 years now, ever since the Montgomery bus boycott, I have been struggling against segregation, and I have been working too long and too hard now against segregated public accommodations to end up segregating my moral concerns, for since justice is indivisible, injustice anywhere is an affront to justice everywhere.
M. L. King

I don't mind saying to you I'm tired of the tension surrounding our days. I don't mind saying to you, I'm tired of living every day under the threat of death.
I have no martyr complex. I want to live as long as anybody in this building, and sometimes I begin to doubt whether I'm going to make it through. I must confess. Yes, I'm tired of going to jail. I'm tired of all of the surging (INAUDIBLE) of life's restless seas, so I'll tell anybody I'm willing to stop marching. I don't march because I like it, I march because I must and because I'm a man and because I'm a child of God.
M. L. King. Of course, reading these sentences and hearing them is not the same thing. King was a superlative orator.

"You must choose between me and your cigar"
A woman (probably Maggie) quoted by Rudyard Kipling at the beginning of his poem"The Betrothed"

Open the cigar box - let me consider anew -
Old friends, and who is Maggie that I should abandon you?

A million surplus Maggies are willing to bear the yoke;
And a woman is only a woman, but a Cigar is a Smoke.

Light me another Cuba - I hold to my first-sworn vows.
If Maggie will have no rival, I'll have no Maggie for Spouse.
Rudyard Kipling's answer at the end of that long poem. Rude and sexist, but funny (at least to a man).

Just a bunch of shits ... Tawdry, filthy shits.
Henry Kissinger about the North Vietnamese during a briefing to Richard Nixon.

When the finger points to the moon, the fool looks at the finger.
Old Zen Koan

God is an invention of Man. So the nature of God is only a shallow mystery. The deep mystery is the nature of Man.
Nanrei Kobori, abbot at Ryokoin, a subtemple of Daitokuji, Kyoto (1918- 1998)

A virtuoso is his own reward.
Guitarist Leo Kottke

When I told my late, good friend Sanae Kurokawa that I had found in a Jinbocho book store a grammar of African-American English but hadn't bought it because it was too expensive, he scolded me saying:

Francesco, there is no such thing as an expensive book.

And he was right. After 18 odd years, I wish I had bought that book. I never again found anything like it.