L'éternité, c'est long ... surtout vers la fin. - Franz Kafka

"The meaning of life is that it stops."

"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."

"I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness."

"May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air."

"Kill me, or you are a murderer."