Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. – Franz Kafka
How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world. – Franz Kafka
It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet. – Franz Kafka
I just get so fed up with seeing the same things written about me. If I see the words ice queen attached to me, I feel like banging my head against the wall. Theres this perception that I can only be in a film if I have a glass of champagne in my hand and a stately home in the background. – Kristin Scott Thomas