Kathy Acker

"We are defined by what we refuse to do."

"Art is truth told through lies."

"Love is a battlefield without resolution."

"To write is to rebel against silence."

"Time is the only real currency."

"The body speaks louder than words."

"Revolution is a state of mind."

"I write myself into being."

"Happiness is a trap for the unthinking."

"The self is a fiction we maintain."

"Art without risk is decoration."

"To be human is to be at war with yourself."

"Words can hurt more than weapons."

"The truth will destroy you if you let it."

"I am not what you see; I am what you imagine."

"Life is what happens while you're making art."

"Love is the wound that never heals."

"Death gives life meaning."

"We are the stories we tell ourselves."

"Power is the ability to define reality."

"Art is the only form of honesty."

"To change the world, change yourself."

"Fear is the teacher of the wise."

"The past is a prison we build for ourselves."

"I write against the dying of the light."

"Justice is a dream we haven't achieved."

"Beauty is in the broken things."

"To love someone is to give them power over you."

"Silence is violence."

"Art exists because reality is unbearable."