Occupation: Novelist Birth: April 18, 1947 Death: November 30, 1997
Culture is that which falsifies..
I'm no longer a child and I still want to be, to live with the pirates. Because I want to live forever in wonder. The difference between me as a chil….
Well, fear and homophobia are both pervasive..
Whereas the slums in Hamburg are the slums of its sailors, Berlin is a big slum..
Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off of it. And the riffs ….
Those who are driven by poverty, those who're free from material worries hunger exhausting labor a joyless existence ask the same question, the quest….
The personal interiorization of the practice of humiliation is called humility..
The whole world is men's bloody fantasies..
LESBIANS are women who prefer their own ways to male ways.LESBIANS prefer the convoluting halls of sensuality to direct goal-pursuing mores. LESBIANS….
But : We're still human. Human because we keep on battling against all these horrors, the horrors caused and not caused by us. We battle not in order….
I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don't get it that those writers are really ….
First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic..
Every day a sharp tool, a powerful destroyer, is necessary to cut away dullness, lobotomy, buzzing, belief in human beings, stagnancy, images, and ac….
Pain is the world. I don't have anywhere to run..
A language is the appearances of connections therefore language as in writing doesn't express anything: it creates..
I find waiting unbearable because it makes me passive and negates me. I hate being nothing..
My nutritionist read my pathology report and said, "There's only one way you can beat your cancer." "What's that?" "You have to find out what caused ….
There are times when the law jeopardizes those who obey it..
I have become interested in languages which I cannot make up, which I cannot create or even create in: I have become interested in languages which I ….
Yeah, I mean, I put work out there for people to use and I'm grateful when you use it..
And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation..