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."

"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."

"Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old."

"May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air."

"Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me."