"The purpose of a story is to..." - Quote by Franz Kafka

“Do not waste your time looking for an obstacle - maybe there is none.”

“No one can crave what truly harms him.”

“Ours is a lost generation, it may be, but it is more blameless than those earlier generations.”

“When I really want to learn about something, I write a book on it. Then the real research begins, as I begin to hear people's stories, and huge amounts of information begins to comes straight to my doorstep. Then I can write an even better book the next time!”

“Don't adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on on the story.”

“That's what the leadership was teaching me, day by day: that the self-interest I was supposed to be looking for extended well beyond the immediacy of issues, that beneath the small talk and sketchy biographies and received opinions, people carried with them some central explanation of themselves. Stories full of terror and wonder, studded with events that still haunted or inspired them. Sacred stories.”

“What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.”

“I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.”

“No one ever finds life worth living - one has to make it worth living.”