Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss o... - Franz Kafka

"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."

"Writing is prayer."

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

"Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith."

"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."