We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds... - Franz Kafka

"A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us."

"Writing is prayer."

"Books are a narcotic."

"The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things."

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