Franz Kafka — "You can choose to be anything you want to be, but you can't be everything you wa…"

"I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in these bones."

"There is a goal, but no way; what we call way is hesitation."

"There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction."

"I am thinking of the possibility of writing a book about myself, that is, about this self that has become so difficult and enigmatic to me."

"The only way to deal with the world is to be a part of it, to live in it, and to accept it as it is."