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

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

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

"Books are a narcotic."

"I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us."

"Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self."