Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. An... - Franz Kafka

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

"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."

"He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived."

"Kill me, or you are a murderer."

"The meaning of life is that it stops."