A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within.

As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

Now the sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence someone might have escaped from their singing; but from their silence, certainly never.

One must not cheat anybody, not even the world of one's triumph.

The dream reveals the reality which conception lags behind. That is the horror of life the terror of art.

The meaning of life is that it stops.

There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to ...