Kathy Acker

"The only honest relationship is one built on beautiful lies."

"To create is to steal and recombine."

"We're all trying to escape who we really are."

"Art is the only response to a broken world."

"Freedom is the burden we carry unconsciously."

"The best lies are the ones we tell ourselves daily."

"To write is to betray everyone you love."

"Writing is a form of talking without being interrupted."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence of that world is a form of liberation."

"I think one thing that's important is that we stop trying to be perfect."

"Plagiarism is a form of honesty."

"Every person contains multitudes."

"The job of the artist is to make revolution irresistible."

"You can't think your way out of problems. You have to feel your way through them."

"Language is material. It has shape. It has weight."

"To be truly alive, you must embrace your own contradiction."

"Control only exists in the imagination."

"Art should disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed."

"Identity is a kind of fiction."

"The real rebellion is to refuse to play the game at all."

"Memory is unreliable. That's what makes it interesting."

"Love is the most political act there is."

"Writing is thinking. It's the only way I know how to think."

"Meaning is created through action, not through interpretation."

"The body is a text that can be read and rewritten."

"Desire is the engine of narrative."

"To change society, you must first change language."

"Death is not the opposite of life; it's the opposite of birth."

"Authority exists only because we grant it."

"The margin is where real thinking happens."