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

i am a limitless series of natural disasters and all of these disasters have been unnaturally repressed.

And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation.

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.

I understand that when people read my books that there's something there - but I don't identify with it.

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.

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.