"If he had a hundred thousand readers, the world would be a better place."

Hermann Hesse

"One of the most profound creations and one that is enough on its own to explain why the most powerful of all writers was a favorite author of the merciless Franz Kafka."

Walter Benjamin

"A Paul Klee in prose—as delicate, as shy, as haunted. A cross between Stevie Smith and Beckett."

Susan Sontag