“ But now that she had achieved knighthood, and thought and acted as she wanted and decided, for one has to act in this way in order to save this world, she neither noticed nor cared that all the people… Kathy Acker
“ I need anything, anything that will stop me from living in the kind of death the bourgeois eat, the death called comfort. Kathy Acker
“ Sex. You can't lie to yourself sexually. If you don't want it, it's the most disgusting thing in the world. 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 wh… Kathy Acker
“ It was only when we were in that bed, high above the world - then I thought the birds could have been circling around our bodies circled around each other - that we made our world totally separated fr… Kathy Acker
“ Eurydice sits alone on a red bed. She has flaming red hair, so flaming that you can't see anything else of her, much less anything else around her. She takes up too much space. Also she's mad. Which h… Kathy Acker
“ 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 ke… Kathy Acker
“ She wore red lipstick the next time that I saw her, though her hair was more voluminous with dirt than before. Owing, like everything else about these girls, to the fertility of rats. Kathy Acker
“ LESBIANS are women who prefer their own ways to male ways.LESBIANS prefer the convoluting halls of sensuality to direct goal-pursuing mores. LESBIANS have made a small world deep within and separated… Kathy Acker
“ After Hatuey, a fifteenth-century Indian insurrectionist, had been fixed to the stake, his Spanish captors extended him the choice of converting to Christianity and ascending to Heaven of going unrepe… Kathy Acker
“ [...] A society that drives its members to desperate solutions is a non-viable society, a society to be replaced. Kathy Acker
“ Why am I begging you, who parades your suffering over the ruins like a king in order to ensure that you will never be touched deeply, you who're always laughing. Kathy Acker
“ Literature is that which denounces and slashes apart the repressing machine at the level of the signified. Kathy Acker
“ 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. Kathy Acker
“ I find waiting unbearable because it makes me passive and negates me. I hate being nothing. Kathy Acker
