But I still don’t have a clear idea of what my voice is.

Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off of it. And the riffs are about timing.

What she really wanted […] was […] “to experience every emotion to the limit” so she could go beyond every limit.

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

If we keep on fucking, I’m not gonna die.

I found my voice was a reaction to all that voice stuff.

I think what we have in this country is a little more dangerous in a way because it can’t be seen fully. It’s sorta internal censorship. We censor each other.

I don’t think what happens in this country is censorship, I should say that. It’s something else. It’s not banning. It’s something else.

One of the reasons I think the ultra right-wing has such power in this country is that no one talks out.

Literature is that which denounces and slashes apart the repressing machine at the level of the signified.

I mean, once work’s out there it’s meant to be used.