96 Quotes by Chris Kraus

I’m torn between maintaining you as an entity to write to and talking with you as a person.

To initiate something is to play the fool.

You’re aware there are things you once valued and were proud of in yourself, but they exist at a remove now, because they’re overwhelmed by the question of whether they would be good and acceptable to him. Morality, ambition, desire, pleasure all take a backseat to, What would he think of this, and how shall I describe it to him? All you care about is maximizing his impression of you.

Desire isn’t lack, it’s surplus energy – a claustrophobia inside your skin -.

Because identifying so completely with someone else can only happen by abandoning yourself,... panics and retreats abruptly from these connections. Connect and cut.

It was April the season of blood oranges, emotion running like the stream behind my house upstate, turbulent and thawing. I thought about how fragile people get when they withdraw from anything, how they become bloody yolks protected only by the thinnest shell.

You were witnessing me become this crazy and cerebral girl, the kind of girl that you and your entire generation vilified. But doesn’t witnessing contain complicity? “You think too much,” is what they always said when their curiosity ran out.

It’s going to be crazy. All eight teams here are good teams. Hopefully the atmosphere will be great because it’s going to be great basketball.

According to Charles Olsen, the best poetry is a kind of schizophrenia. The poem does not “express” the poet’s thoughts or feelings. It is “a transfer of energy between the poet and the reader”.