155 Quotes by Kathy Acker

Maps are dreams: both describe desire, where you want to go, but never the reality of the destination.

In such a society as ours the only possible chance for change, for mobility, for political, economic, and moral flow lies in the tactics of guerrilla warfare, in the use of fictions, of language.

Glory be to those humans that are absolutely NOTHING for the opinions of other humans: they are the true owners of illusions, transformations, and themselves.

Dreams are manifestations of identities.

The two main girlfriends he has had wanted him to support them in the manner to which they certainly weren't accustomed even though he couldn't put his flabby hands on a penny.

There's a point at which when I start to know a man well--this isn't true of women--I wonder whether there's something in him that's evil. Something that's pure and can't be touched. This quality of evil may be related to the quality of artistry, for an artist has the same characteristics.

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

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

Since an emotion's an announcement of value, in this society of the death (of values) emotions moved like zombies through humans.