He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived. - Franz Kafka

"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."

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

"Writer speaks a stench."

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

"We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt."