Kevin Killian > Quotes

“Even when it was happening to me, I thought, 'This will make a good story someday,' but now that I think of it, its story's not that good at all. More important than its plot, it's the quality of feeling that strikes me now-something out of this world, 'outlandish' in its literal sense.”
― Kevin Killian, Fascination: Memoirs

“I kept thinking, I'm wearing way too many clothes! And I fled. Finally night fell and I looked up at the moon that shone over Morningside Heights, its white soft beam so limpid, full of the poetry of Shakespeare and the Caribbean and George Eliot --- the antithesis I suppose of the hot lights I had grown to need. How relaxed, how relieved I now felt, in the white moonlight. Relieved of the chore of playing with the big boys. My clothes seemed to fit again, I became myself. The moon's fleecy lambency corralled my pieces and re-linked us, we joined "hands" as it were, and sang and danced in a circle, very Joseph Campbell, "me" regnant, manhood ceremonial. Birth of the hero. I became Kevin Killian. Did I make a mistake?”
― Kevin Killian, Fascination: Memoirs

“(...but religion, I thought is only sex without color) (like lamb with mint jelly)...

and sex, I now think, is religion with no color-- like a bag of liquid on a dead man's chest”
― Kevin Killian, Bedrooms Have Windows

“I liked when Crowley was living with Allan Bennett and keeping a human skeleton in the front room, to which they would try to restore human life by using toothbrushes to “feed” its bones a viscous mess of blood and sparrow meat.”
― Kevin Killian, Selected Amazon Reviews (Semiotext