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

"Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me."

"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."

"Writer speaks a stench."

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

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