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

"We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us."

"Writing is prayer."

"Kill me, or you are a murderer."

"I am a cage, in search of a bird."

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