Joseph Bates > Joseph's Quotes

“I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
― Franz Kafka

“I once received a letter from an old lady in California who informed me that when the tired reader comes home at night, he wishes to read something that will lift up his heart. And it seems her heart had not been lifted up by anything of mine she had read. I think that if her heart had been in the right place, it would have been lifted up.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“How can you be alienated without first having been connected?”
― Donald Barthelme, Sixty Stories

“You're on Earth. There's no cure for that.”
― Samuel Beckett

“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
― Albert Camus