Reality is like a doughnut: Everything that is good and funny and juicy is outside the center, which is just emptiness.

I realized that we don't travel in such a linear way anymore but rather jump from one point to another and back again. So I got this idea for a 'constellation' novel recounting experiences that were separate from each other but could still be connected on different psychological, physical and political levels.

I think the deepest level of our freedom is being able to change our identity.

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