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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 it.

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

If we keep on fucking, I'm not gonna die.

I have about a hundred cats living in me and all of them are curious

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All you creeps on the street get away from me

Murder is a dream because lack is the center of both.

Life doesn't exist inside language: too bad for me.

I write it to get it out of me. I don't write it to remember it.

And internalization is used in this country as a very effective political tool.

For the poet, the world is word. Words. Not that precisely. Precisely: the world and words fuck each other.

I mean, they censor your work when they're scared of it.

You know I've had work banned.

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

A language is the appearances of connections therefore language as in writing doesn't express anything: it creates.

What other knowledge will my solitude and muteness bring? What other worlds?

There are times when the law jeopardizes those who obey it.

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

But guys such as Allen and William are more supportive than most men.

A novel is a book with a lot of pages.

I'm what happens after death, which is writing.

I understand that when people read my books that there's something there - but I don't identify with it.

Come alive, dead heart, and sing.

I mean, once work's out there it's meant to be used.

There is no master narrative nor realist perspective to provide a background of social and historical facts.

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

The only reaction against an unbearable society is equally unbearable nonsense.

Traveling around I don't think people are that horrible, I think they just don't know.

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

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

But I still don't have a clear idea of what my voice is.

Well, fear and homophobia are both pervasive.

Literature is that which denounces and slashes apart the repressing machine at the level of the signified.

IF THERE IS A GOD, GOD IS DISJUNCTION AND MADNESS.

And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation.

I found my voice was a reaction to all that voice stuff.

Pain is the world. I don't have anywhere to run.

If you ask me what I want, I'll tell you. I want everything.

When the word ends, there'll be no more air. That's why it's important to pollute the air now.

One of the reasons I think the ultra right-wing has such power in this country is that no one talks out.

Love goes away when your mind goes away and then you're someone else.

[ ... ] A society that drives its members to desperate solutions is a non-viable society, a society to be replaced.

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

You can do whatever you want with my work.

Dreams are manifestations of identities.

Some of the stuff about Yogi energy is really fascinating.

I am a limitless series of natural disasters and all of these disasters have been unnaturally repressed.

All memory can do is scream for touch.

I think it's really important to find out why people hurt you or try to oppose you or whatever.

Culture is that which falsifies.

I wasn't really into body piercings until I found that about half my female students had them.

I'm very staid compared to my students, actually.

The more rapidly the water moves, the lighter it seems.

The whole world is men's bloody fantasies.

That's what the right-wing is good at: figuring out the left wing.

Education,' one of R's teachers taught, 'teaches you not to be yourself.' But who is yourself? R decided if it or he wasn't blood, it wasn't anything.

I question: do we really understand the differences between modernist and postmodernist?

What she really wanted [ ... ] was [ ... ] "to experience every emotion to the limit" so she could go beyond every limit.

Death is another bar which lies several steps below the normal world. I'm at its threshold, but not yet in it. Its doorway is doorless.

There's a backlash against womyn that's really bad right now.

I think the best thing in cases of censorship or things like this is to get as much media as possible.

As if l was pitch black and everyone else, pastel

We've been very bad at understanding why the right-wing does things.

GET RID OF MEANING. YOUR MIND IS A NIGHTMARE THAT HAS BEEN EATING YOU: NOW EAT YOUR MIND.

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

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