I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound a... - Franz Kafka

"Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly."

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

"Evil does not exist; once you have crossed the threshold, all is good. Once in another world, you must hold your tongue."

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

"Books are a narcotic."