I am a cage, in search of a bird. - Franz Kafka

"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."

"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."

"Books are a narcotic."

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

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