Quotes From "My Mother: Demonology" By Kathy Acker

After Hatuey, a fifteenth-century Indian insurrectionist, had been fixed to the stake, his Spanish captors extended him the choice of converting to Christianity and ascending to Heaven of going unrepentantly to Hell. Gathering that his executioners expected to go to heaven, Hatuey chose the other Kathy Acker

There's a point at which when I start to know a man well--this isn't true of women-- I wonder whether there's something in him that's evil. Something that's pure and can't be touched. This quality of evil may be related to the quality of artistry, for an artist has the same characteristics. Kathy Acker

Murder is a dream because lack is the center of both. Kathy Acker

Life doesn't exist inside language: too bad for me. Kathy Acker

What other knowledge will my solitude and muteness bring? What other worlds? Kathy Acker

I want to get out of here means I want to be innocent. Kathy Acker