A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. - Franz Kafka

"Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old."

"Kill me, or you are a murderer."

"The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things."

"Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me."

"He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived."