Kathy Acker

"To live is to betray."

"Language is a prison and the only way out is through it."

"We are all monsters in someone else's story."

"The personal autobiography is the most political text."

"Art that doesn't hurt isn't worth making."

"We're all pretending. Some of us just pretend better than others."

"Love is a luxury the poor can't afford."

"To be free is to be willing to die."

"Art is the language of the unspeakable."

"We construct ourselves through our lies."

"The body is the only truth we have."

"To write about something is to understand it's impossible."

"Power corrupts language before it corrupts people."

"Real friendship is just mutual understanding of each other's loneliness."

"We're all characters in a book we're reading while writing."

"Death is the only honest ending."

"To create without fear is to create without meaning."

"Art should make you question your right to exist."

"We are all living in the wreckage of previous worlds."

"The truth is whatever we can live with."

"To love is to lose yourself completely."

"Writing is the only way to survive yourself."

"We create meaning by refusing to accept given meaning."

"Art is what makes life worth the pain."

"The most important thing is to never stop questioning."

"We're all exiles from the country of our childhood."

"To be human is to be in constant contradiction."

"Art that doesn't confuse you isn't teaching you anything."

"Language fails at the moment it matters most."

"We become ourselves through the stories we tell about ourselves."