From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning b... - Franz Kafka

"The meaning of life is that it stops."

"The meaning of life is that it stops."

"I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man."

"We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes."

"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."