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

- Kathy Acker

But guys such as Allen and William are more supportive than most men.

- Kathy Acker

But I still don't have a clear idea of what my voice is.

- Kathy Acker

I found my voice was a reaction to all that voice stuff.

- Kathy Acker

I mean, once work's out there it's meant to be used.

- Kathy Acker

I question: do we really understand the differences between modernist and postmodernist?

- Kathy Acker

I understand that when people read my books that there's something there - but I don't identify with it.

- Kathy Acker

I'm very staid compared to my students, actually.

- Kathy Acker

Some of the stuff about Yogi energy is really fascinating.

- Kathy Acker

And internalization is used in this country as a very effective political tool.

- Kathy Acker

We've been very bad at understanding why the right-wing does things.

- Kathy Acker

Well, fear and homophobia are both pervasive.

- Kathy Acker

Yeah, I mean, I put work out there for people to use and I'm grateful when you use it.

- Kathy Acker

You can do whatever you want with my work.

- Kathy Acker

You know I've had work banned.

- 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.

- Kathy Acker

The literary culture, if you examine it, the high literary culture is that which preserves the government and you know it's really the talk for those who have.

- Kathy Acker

We get on the bandwagon in all sorts of ways - you know minor ways and major ways - like what you've just encountered which isn't censorship exactly, it was something sort of uglier in a way.

- Kathy Acker

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.

- Kathy Acker

I'm really fascinated and you know I've been wondering about that usage of language, various breathing techniques and why in these practices language is being used in another way.

- Kathy Acker