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

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

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

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

"I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness."

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