Kathy Acker Quotes

Every angel is terrifying.Through the darkness, they move silently...I will go down into death with ...

Every one-night-stand or man in a one-night-stand is like every other one-night-stand or man in a on...

If you read every poem in every anthology of Greek poetry, you wouldn't read one poem in which a cha...

Meanwhile the temperature is getting hotter and hotter so no one can think clearly. No one perceives...

There are times when the law jeopardizes those who obey it.

Dreams are manifestations of identities.

She wore red lipstick the next time that I saw her, though her hair was more voluminous with dirt th...

INTENSE SEXUAL DESIRE IS THE GREATEST THING IN THE WORLDJaney dreams of cocks. Janey sees cocks inst...

Death is another bar which lies several steps below the normal world. I'm at its threshold, but not ...

Life doesn't exist inside language: too bad for me.

I want to get out of here means I want to be innocent.

Murder is a dream because lack is the center of both.

What other knowledge will my solitude and muteness bring? What other worlds?

After Hatuey, a fifteenth-century Indian insurrectionist, had been fixed to the stake, his Spanish c...

There's a point at which when I start to know a man well--this isn't true of women--I wonder whether...

There must be a secret hidden in this book or else you wouldn't bother to read it

But now that she had achieved knighthood, and thought and acted as she wanted and decided, for one h...

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

I'm no longer a child and I still want to be, to live with the pirates. Because I want to live forev...

I find waiting unbearable because it makes me passive and negates me. I hate being nothing.

It was only when we were in that bed, high above the world - then I thought the birds could have bee...