Kathy Acker Quotes

I want to get out of here means I want to be innocent.

There are times when the law jeopardizes those who obey it.

Meanwhile the temperature is getting hotter and hotter so no one can think clearly. No one perceives. No one cares. Insane madness come out like life is a terrific party.

I find waiting unbearable because it makes me passive and negates me. I hate being nothing.

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.

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

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

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 around her thought she was insane.