The meaning of life is that it stops. - Franz Kafka

"Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old."

"I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us."

"We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt."

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

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