Quotes from Kathy Acker

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.

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 think what we have in this country is a little more dangerous in a way because it can't be seen fully. It's sorta internal censorship. We censor each other.

Some of the stuff about Yogi energy is really fascinating.

Traveling around I don't think people are that horrible, I think they just don't know.

If you ask me what I want, I'll tell you. I want everything.

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.

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 might be writing what people expect me to write, writing from that place where I might be ruled by economic considerations. To overcome that, I started working with my dreams, because I'm not so censored when I use dream material.

If you ask me what I want, I'll tell you. I want everything.

Dreams are manifestations of identities.

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

Death is another bar which lies several steps below the normal world. I'm at its threshold, but not yet in it. Its doorway is doorless.

GET RID OF MEANING. YOUR MIND IS A NIGHTMARE THAT HAS BEEN EATING YOU: NOW EAT YOUR MIND.

Love goes away when your mind goes away and then you're someone else.

Everytime you read, you are walking among the dead, and, if you are listening, you just might hear prophecies.

Pain is the world. I don't have anywhere to run.

For the poet, the world is word. Words. Not that precisely. Precisely: the world and words fuck each other.

Literature is that which denounces and slashes apart the repressing machine at the level of the signified.

i am a limitless series of natural disasters and all of these disasters have been unnaturally repressed.

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.

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

I'm looking for what might be called a body language. One thing I do is stick a vibrator up my cunt and start writing -- writing from the point of orgasm and losing control of the language and seeing what that's like.

But : We're still human. Human because we keep on battling against all these horrors, the horrors caused and not caused by us. We battle not in order to stay alive, that would be too materalistic, for we are body and spirit, but in order to love each other.