"Don't you want to join us?" I was recently asked by an acquaintance when he ran across me alone after midnight in a coffeehouse that was already almost deserted. "No, I don't," I said.
Franz KafkaI need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man.
Franz KafkaNothing, you know, gives the body greater satisfaction than ordering people about, or at least believing in one's ability to do so.
Franz Kafka