“Writer speaks a stench.”

“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.”

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

“I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.”

“That is a very poor career, but only a poor career give the world the light that an imperfect, but pretty good writer wants to generate--at all costs, unfotunately.”

“Don't look at him!" he snapped, without noticing how odd it was to speak to free men in this way”

“I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.”