• „...szükségünk van azokra a könyvekre, melyek pusztító hatással

vannak ránk, amelyek mélyen megrendítenek bennünket, mint ahogy valakinek a halála, akit magunknál is jobban szerettünk, amelyek úgy hatnak, mintha egy erdőbe száműztek volna bennünket, távol mindenkitől. Mint egy öngyilkosság. A könyvnek egy olyan fejszének kell lennie, amely léket vág a bennünk lévő fagyott tengeren....” (Franz Kafka: Naplók, levelek)

• "Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart ..." - William Wordsworth
• "Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia." - E. L. Doctorow
• "Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyze yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it." - Octavia Butler
• "Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months." - Oscar Wilde
• "Although I have felt compelled to write things down since I was five years old, I doubt that my daughter ever will, for she is a singularly blessed and accepting child, delighted with life exactly as life presents itself to her, unafraid to go to sleep and unafraid to wake up. Keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely and resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment of loss." - Joan Didion
• "There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun." - Pablo Picasso
• "To die means, in fact, to move to a star." - Octavian Paler
• "No matter how careful you are, there`s going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn`t experience it all. There`s that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should`ve been paying attention. Well, get used to that feeling. That`s how your whole life will feel some day. This is all practice." - Chuck Palahnuik
• "Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and think, I'm not going to make it today, but you laugh inside remembering all the times you felt that way. " - Charles Bukowski
• Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You’ll learn from them — if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It’s a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn’t education. It’s history. It’s poetry. -J.D. Salinger
• Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish looking for it, and I think it can be often poisonous. I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other when they fight- "Please, alittle less love and alittle more common decency."- Kurt Vonnegut