Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me.
Franz KafkaMy doubts stand in a circle around every word, I see them before I see the word, but what then! I do not see the word at all, I invent it.
Franz KafkaThere has never been a time in which I have been convinced from within myself that I am alive. You see, I have only such a fugitive awareness of things around me that I always feel they were once real and are now fleeting away. I have a constant longing, my dear sir, to catch a glimpse of things as they may have been before they show themselves to me.
Franz Kafka