"Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly."
"Writing is prayer."
"A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity."[Letter to Max Brod, July 5, 1922]"
"May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air."
"Writer speaks a stench."
"Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old."