155 Quotes by Kathy Acker

I’m very staid compared to my students, actually.

You create identity, you’re not given identity per se. What became more and more interesting to me wasn’t the I, it was text because it’s text that create identity. That’s how I got interested in plagiarism.

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 from everything else. It was the only way we could be together.

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.

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.

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.

The whole world is men’s bloody fantasies.

I wasn’t really into body piercings until I found that about half my female students had them.

A language is the appearances of connections therefore language as in writing doesn’t express anything: it creates.