Katherine Dunn Quotes

Then he dreamed that he was in the open door of a plane several thousand feet above the earth and he...

Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate.

Just as a snowflakewent on to feed a puddle that filled a stream and then the river, thepumpkin patc...

I am here, come closer,” the old donkey said with her eyes. “I will mother you.

In the United States, female fisticuffs were marginalized, first as erotic vaudeville in the 19th ce...

At its heart, 'Fat City' is not about boxing. It is a universal story of grim realities and toxic de...

I know that some of the finest writing I've ever read has been sports writing, whatever the topic wa...

I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some w...

Nudity and explicit sex are far more easily available now than are clear images of death. The quasi-...

The child, screaming for refuge, senses how feeble a shelter the twig hut of grown-up awareness is. ...

We came to Portland because there was a good alternative public school. Friends who lived there told...

I knew what he felt. The huge buoyant air sack of love that filled his body had just exploded and th...

American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wr...

'The Iliad' includes some snappy sports reporting, and writers ever since have been probing athletes...

I'm like every waitress in every diner I'm like every mom driving her kids to school. I'm nothing sp...

It goes in streaks. But some things never go out of fashion.' Hunger artists, fat folks, giants, and...

I get glimpses of the horror of normalcy. Each of these innocents on the street is engulfed by a ter...

The roses started him thinking, how the oddity of them was beautiful and how that oddity was contriv...

[Pride and power] are the same except that pride leaves the lights on and power can do it in the dar...

Can you be happy with the movies, and the ads, and the clothes in the stores, and the doctors, and t...

When your mama was the geek, my dreamlets," Papa would say, "she made the nipping off of noggins suc...

The truth is always an insult or a joke, lies are generally tastier. We love them. The nature of lie...

Sometimes when I felt the eyes crawling on me from all sides, I got scared thinking someone was look...

It is, I suppose, the common grief of children at having to protect their parents from reality. It i...

I think I’m getting a notion of how to do this. O.K., a carnival works because people pay to feel am...

It is coincidence, I decide, and I am getting old and batty, thinking the universe revolves around m...