What other knowledge will my solitude and muteness bring? What other worlds?
Why am I begging you, who parades your suffering over the ruins like a king in order to ensure that you will never be touched deeply, you who’re always laughing.
Women need to become literary criminals, break the literary laws and reinvent their own, because the established laws prevent women from presenting the reality of their lives.
There’s a point at which when I start to know a man well – this isn’t true of women – I wonder whether there’s something in him that’s evil. Something that’s pure and can’t be touched. This quality of evil may be related to the quality of artistry, for an artist has the same characteristics.
There are times when the law jeopardizes those who obey it.
A novel is a book with a lot of pages.
I’m very staid compared to my students, actually.
If you ask me what I want, I’ll tell you. I want everything.
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 are about timing.
Pain is the world. I don’t have anywhere to run.
I understand that when people read my books that there’s something there – but I don’t identify with it.
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 to stay alive, that would be too materalistic, for we are body and spirit, but in order to love each other.
The whole world is men’s bloody fantasies.
Some of the stuff about Yogi energy is really fascinating.
In such a society as ours the only possible chance for change, for mobility, for political, economic, and moral flow lies in the tactics of guerrilla warfare, in the use of fictions, of language.
Every day a sharp tool, a powerful destroyer, is necessary to cut away dullness, lobotomy, buzzing, belief in human beings, stagnancy, images, and accumulation. As soon as we stop believing in human beings, rather know we are dogs and trees, we’ll start to be happy.
I think it’s really important to find out why people hurt you or try to oppose you or whatever.