Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith. - Franz Kafka

"Evil does not exist; once you have crossed the threshold, all is good. Once in another world, you must hold your tongue."

"We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us."

"A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity."[Letter to Max Brod, July 5, 1922]"

"I am a cage, in search of a bird."

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