Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.

If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father's library.

Im merely a dreamer, and then a writer, and my happiest moments are when I'm a reader.

To bless thine enemy is a good way to satisfy thy vanity.

Man's memory shapes Its own Eden within

I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks.

Kafka had the sense of guilt. I don't think I have because I don't believe in free will. Because what I have done has been done, well, for me or through me. But I haven't done it really. But I don't believe in free will, I can't feel guilty.