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

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

LESBIANS are women who prefer their own ways to male ways.LESBIANS prefer the convoluting halls of sensuality to direct goal-pursuing mores. LESBIANS have made a small world deep within and separated from the world.What has usually been called the world is the male world.

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

A novel is a book with a lot of pages.

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.

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