“A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.” — Franz Kafka Quote

“A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.”

“How suicidal happiness can be!”

“So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.”

“I come from a long line of lumberjacks. My family has a proud heritage of swinging the ax. I've always been quick to take on a big piece of timber, and I'm just as ready to topple the big spending in Washington.”

“I almost chopped my thumb off once. Just before I left home, I was about ten or eleven years old, and I was trying to open a bone. Can you imagine that? A bone! I was trying to get the marrow out of a bone, and I took the ax, and I went to chop it, and something slipped, and the ax went right down there and damn near cut it off.”