Writing is prayer. - Franz Kafka

"A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity."[Letter to Max Brod, July 5, 1922]"

"Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self."

"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."

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

"The meaning of life is that it stops."