David

“OK. You don't know. How can you know anything? How can you know anything? You begin to go crazy.”
― Kathy Acker, Blood and Guts in High School

“Especially his body-his name was Antonin Artaud- which was thin nasty sick mangled distorted ravaged by drugs and by desires which had been repressed by thinking.
The body, the kid said further, when not being robbed blind by family and religion, has an infinite capacity for self-transformation.
He had actually talked in a much more disgusting manner. Before he had died.
The punk boys were the ones who followed him. After his death.
All of them had fucked their mothers and were no longer colonized.”
― Kathy Acker, Pussy, King of the Pirates

“don’t get into the writer’s personal life thinking if you like the books you’ll like the writer. A writer’s personal life is horrible and lonely. Writers are queer so keep away from them.”
― Kathy Acker, Blood and Guts in High School

“The problem is that, when they say 'real people', what they mean is people who aren't burdened with ironic senses of humor, college educations that help them put up an analytical barrier between themselves and the actual world, and the pressure of living with the reality that they all grew up middle class, chose a broke-ass bohemian life and now have to deal with the fact that they can't afford the comforts they grew up with. So they're colonizing those normal people's neighborhoods, colonizing their experiences. It's pretty gross.”
― Imogen Binnie, Nevada