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.

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

Every one-night-stand or man in a one-night-stand is like every other one-night-stand or man in a one-night-stand because the sex in a one-night-stand is without time and only time allows value.

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.