The personal interiorization of the practice of humiliation is called humility.
We come crawling through these cracks, orphans, lobotomies; if you ask me what I want, I’ll tell you. I want everything. Whole rotten world come down and break. Let me spread my legs.
Love goes away when your mind goes away and then you’re someone else.
There must be a secret hidden in this book or else you wouldn’t bother to read it.
You know I’ve had work banned.
I want to get out of here means I want to be innocent.
Life doesn’t exist inside language: too bad for me.
And I’m working at trying to find a kind of language where I won’t be so easily modulated by expectation.
But now that she had achieved knighthood, and thought and acted as she wanted and decided, for one has to act in this way in order to save this world, she neither noticed nor cared that all the people around her thought she was insane.
You create identity, you’re not given identity per se. What became more and more interesting to me wasn’t the I, it was text because it’s text that create identity. That’s how I got interested in plagiarism.
It was only when we were in that bed, high above the world – then I thought the birds could have been circling around our bodies circled around each other – that we made our world totally separated from everything else. It was the only way we could be together.
We get on the bandwagon in all sorts of ways – you know minor ways and major ways – like what you’ve just encountered which isn’t censorship exactly, it was something sort of uglier in a way.
Dreams are manifestations of identities.
All memory can do is scream for touch.
I’m what happens after death, which is writing.
Culture is that which falsifies.
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 ever lived in.
First of all, writing at best – certainly fiction writing – more and more I think is magic.
Literature is that which denounces and slashes apart the repressing machine at the level of the signified.
It’s all up to you, girls. You have to be strong. These are the days of post-women’s liberation. You have grown up by now and you have to take care of yourself. No one’s going to help you.