A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity."[Letter... - Franz Kafka

"Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith."

"Books are a narcotic."

"A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us."

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

"The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speaks he lies."