Kathy Acker

“Every angel is terrifying.Through the darkness, they move silently...I will go down into death with you.I must go where I must goTo see what I must seeIn that place where no one knows...... This is where love is taking me.You have been leadingMe, angels, in and out of death.I have no idea who you are.Eurydice. Is she nothingOr is she your mirror?I don't know anymore.I am at war.Perhaps that which is given - Being human - Is too hard,And so it is love that brings us,To what cannot be born,To ourselves,And so we must change,Must descend, guided by love, into the unknown.Lovers disappear in each other.Do they disappear forever?Where do they go?”

“Traveling around I don't think people are that horrible, I think they just don't know.”

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

“Well, fear and homophobia are both pervasive.”

“INTENSE SEXUAL DESIRE IS THE GREATEST THING IN THE WORLDJaney dreams of cocks. Janey sees cocks instead of objects. Janey has to fuck.This is the way Sex drives Janey crazy: Before Janey fucks, she keeps her wants in cells. As soon as Janey's fucking she wants to be adored as much as possible at the same time as, its other extreme, ignored as much as possible. More than this: Janey can no longer perceive herself wanting. Janey is Want.It's worse than this: If Janey gets sexually rejected her body becomes sick. If she doesn't get who she wants she naturally revolts.”

“There's a backlash against womyn that's really bad right now.”

“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.”

“Some of the stuff about Yogi energy is really fascinating.”

“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.”

“One of the reasons I think the ultra right-wing has such power in this country is that no one talks out.”

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

“I understand that when people read my books that there's something there - but I don't identify with it.”

“You can do whatever you want with my work.”

“I'm very staid compared to my students, actually.”

“If you read every poem in every anthology of Greek poetry, you wouldn't read one poem in which a character of the woman who's loved is described or matters.”

“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.”

“I'm really fascinated and you know I've been wondering about that usage of language, various breathing techniques and why in these practices language is being used in another way.”

“Every one-night-stand or man in a one-night-stand is like every other one-night-stand or man in a one-night-stand because the sex in a one-night-stand is without time and only time allows value.”

“I think what we have in this country is a little more dangerous in a way because it can't be seen fully. It's sorta internal censorship. We censor each other.”

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