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

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.

Yeah, I mean, I put work out there for people to use and I'm grateful when you use it.

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

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

Murder is a dream because lack is the center of both.

You can't change old people. Unlike middle-aged people, they do what they want.