155 Quotes by Kathy Acker

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

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

I have about a hundred cats living in me and all of them are curious.

We come crawling through these cracks, orphans, lobotomies; if you ask me what I want, I’ll tell you. I want everything. Whole rotten world come down and break. Let me spread my legs.

And I’m working at trying to find a kind of language where I won’t be so easily modulated by expectation.

You can’t change old people. Unlike middle-aged people, they do what they want.

When the word ends, there’ll be no more air. That’s why it’s important to pollute the air now.

First of all, writing at best – certainly fiction writing – more and more I think is magic.

Even if I do attain some goal, at that very moment the only thing that’s important to me is to go beyond that which is no longer a goal but now only a stage.