After Hatuey, a fifteenth-century Indian insurrectionist, had been fixed to the stake, his Spanish captors extended him the choice of converting to C…

- Kathy Acker

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

- Kathy Acker

We don't have a clue what it is to be male or female, or if there are intermediate genders. Male and female might be fields which overlap into androg…

- Kathy Acker

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

- Kathy Acker

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

- Kathy Acker

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

- Kathy Acker

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

- Kathy Acker

The only reaction against an unbearable society is equally unbearable nonsense.

- Kathy Acker

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

- Kathy Acker