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

"L'éternité, c'est long ... surtout vers la fin."

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

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

"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."

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