Kafka Quotes

But if I were to say who influenced me most, then I'd say Franz Kafka. And his works were always anchored in the Central European region.

I went through a whole phase when I was younger of being obsessed with Tolstoy and Kafka and Camus, all those really, beautiful, dark depressing books.

If you have to deal with our friends at ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, it's like a Kafka novel. Files just disappear.

Kafka is still unrecognized. He thought he was a comic writer.

It is not Kafka's fault that his wonderful writings have lately turned into a fad, and are read by people who have neither the ability nor the desire to absorb literature.

A friend of mine that I was in a band with started me on Kafka, which in turn led to Camus and Sartre.

Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand, leaves them at an imaginary level.

I would really hate it if I could call up Kafka or Hemingway or Salinger and any question I could throw at them they would have an answer. That's the magic when you read or hear something wonderful - there's no one that has all the answers.

Kafka: cries of helplessness in twenty powerful volumes.

Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives.