I'm very staid compared to my students, actually.

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

Those who are driven by poverty, those who're free from material worries hunger exhausting labor a joyless existence ask the same question, the question of meaning.

GET RID OF MEANING. YOUR MIND IS A NIGHTMARE THAT HAS BEEN EATING YOU: NOW EAT YOUR MIND.

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.

Well, fear and homophobia are both pervasive.

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