“Collaborations are the black holes of knowledge regimes. They willingly produce nothingness, opulence and ill behavior. And it is their very vacuity that is their strength...It does not entail the transmission of something from those who have to those who do not, but rather the setting in motion of a chain of unforeseen accesses.”

“Mentally tease apart the threads that keep you connected to your mother. See that those threads, those feelings, that you experience with her are what find the two of you -- but they do not have to weave the tapestry of your entire life.”

“Love is when two people who care for each other get confused”

“Natürlich ist in diesem Buch alles erstunken und erlogen.”

“Cultural shock' is an academic word for 'I don't like it here'.”

“those which are produced from causes are not produced. they do not have an inherent nature of production. those which depend on causes are said to be empty; those who know emptiness are aware.”

“Marduk decides to create mankind from Qingu, who they claim had started the war with Tiamat (6:25), so that "the work of the gods shall be imposed (on them) and they [the gods] shall be at leisure" (6:5-8).38”