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

"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."

"Books are a narcotic."

"Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself."

"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."

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