We don't have a clue what it is to be male or female, or if there are intermediate genders. Male and female might be fields which overlap into androgyny or different kinds of sexual desires. But because we live in a Western, patriarchal world, we have very little chance of exploring these gender possibilities.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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