Yeah, I mean, I put work out there for people to use and I'm grateful when you use it..

Whereas the slums in Hamburg are the slums of its sailors, Berlin is a big slum..

You can't change old people. Unlike middle-aged people, they do what they want..

I find waiting unbearable because it makes me passive and negates me. I hate being nothing..

Everytime you read, you are walking among the dead, and, if you are listening, you just might hear prophecies..

Culture is that which falsifies..

One of the most destructive forces in the world is love. For the following reason: The world is a conglomeration of objects, no, of events and the ap….

I want to get out of here means I want to be innocent..

There must be a secret hidden in this book or else you wouldn't bother to read it.

On the surface we all act like we all love each other and we're free and easy, and actually we're far more moralistic than any other society I've eve….

Even a woman who has the soul of a pirate, at least pirate morals, even a woman who prefer loneliness to the bickerings and constraints of heterosexu….

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….

First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic..

I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don't get it that those writers are really ….

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 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 ….

You know I've had work banned..

The personal interiorization of the practice of humiliation is called humility..

Women need to become literary "criminals," break the literary laws and reinvent their own, because the established laws prevent women from presenting….

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 ….

Every day a sharp tool, a powerful destroyer, is necessary to cut away dullness, lobotomy, buzzing, belief in human beings, stagnancy, images, and ac….