Kathy Acker Quotes - Page 3

Death is another bar which lies several steps below the normal world. I'm at its threshold, but not yet in it. Its doorway is doorless.

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

I might be writing what people expect me to write, writing from that place where I might be ruled by economic considerations. To overcome that, I started working with my dreams, because Im not so censored when I use dream material.

On the surface we all act like we all love each other and we're free and easy, and actually we're far more moralistic than any other society I've ever lived in.

I think it's really important to find out why people hurt you or try to oppose you or whatever.

The more rapidly the water moves, the lighter it seems.

Those who are driven by poverty, those who're free from material worries hunger exhausting labor a joyless existence ask the same question, the question of meaning.

Writing must be a machine for breaking down, that is, allowing the now uncontrolled and uncontrollable reconstitutions of thoughts and expressions. All other kinds of writing simply express.

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

The personal interiorization of the practice of humiliation is called humility.

We get on the bandwagon in all sorts of ways - you know minor ways and major ways - like what you've just encountered which isn't censorship exactly, it was something sort of uglier in a way.

Some of the stuff about Yogi energy is really fascinating.

But guys such as Allen and William are more supportive than most men.

Whereas the slums in Hamburg are the slums of its sailors, Berlin is a big slum.

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

I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don't get it that those writers are really influenced by postmodern theorists.

Yeah, I mean, I put work out there for people to use and I'm grateful when you use it.