Perhaps most people in the world aren’t trying to be free, Kafka. They just think they are. It’s all an illusion. If they really were set free, most people would be in a real pickle. You’d better remember that. People actually prefer not being free?

I don't know how many good books I still have in me; I hope there are another four or five.

The worst thoughts usually strike in the dead of the night.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

If you're in pitch blackness, all you can do is sit tight until your eyes get used to the dark.

Since I'm a novelist I'm the opposite of you - I believe that what's most important is what cannot be measured. I'm not denying your way of thinking, but the greater part of people's lives consist of things that are unmeasurable, and trying to change all these to something measurable is realistically impossible.

You got to know your limits. Once is enough, but you got to learn. A little caution never hurt anyone. A good woodsman has only one scar on him. No more, no less.