I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that w... - Franz Kafka

"Kill me, or you are a murderer."

"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."

"The meaning of life is that it stops."

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

"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."