„What is written is merely the dregs of experience.“

— Franz Kafka
„To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say what the experiment died of.“
— Ronald Fisher
„Leopards break into the temple and drink to the dregs what is in the sacrificial pitchers; this is repeated over and over again; finally it can be calculated in advance, and it becomes a part of the ceremony.“
— Franz Kafka
„Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.“
— Virginia Woolf
„Of all that is written I love only what a man has written in his own blood.“
— Friedrich Nietzsche