I find waiting unbearable because it makes me passive and negates me. I hate being nothing.
Well, fear and homophobia are both pervasive.
I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don’t get it that those writers are really influenced by postmodern theorists.
I wasn’t really into body piercings until I found that about half my female students had them.
Whereas the slums in Hamburg are the slums of its sailors, Berlin is a big slum.
After Hatuey, a fifteenth-century Indian insurrectionist, had been fixed to the stake, his Spanish captors extended him the choice of converting to Christianity and ascending to Heaven of going unrepentantly to Hell. Gathering that his executioners expected to go to heaven, Hatuey chose the other.
Murder is a dream because lack is the center of both.
Thats what the right-wing is good at: figuring out the left wing.
Yeah, I mean, I put work out there for people to use and I’m grateful when you use it.
The only reaction against an unbearable society is equally unbearable nonsense.
I think the best thing in cases of censorship or things like this is to get as much media as possible.
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.
I might be writing what people expect me to write, writing from that place where I might be ruled by economic considerations. To overcome that, I started working with my dreams, because Im not so censored when I use dream material.
Everytime you read, you are walking among the dead, and, if you are listening, you just might hear prophecies.
Writing must be a machine for breaking down, that is, allowing the now uncontrolled and uncontrollable reconstitutions of thoughts and expressions. All other kinds of writing simply express.
Those who are driven by poverty, those who’re free from material worries hunger exhausting labor a joyless existence ask the same question, the question of meaning.
You can’t change old people. Unlike middle-aged people, they do what they want.
The more rapidly the water moves, the lighter it seems.
A language is the appearances of connections therefore language as in writing doesn’t express anything: it creates.
Writing is one method of dealing with being human or wanting to suicide cause in order to write you kill yourself at the same time while remaining alive.