You have to notice the truth in order to be able to avoid it.

Since Freud, people think you either want to be a man or hate men. You only exist in relationship to men.

MFA programs are to the world of art what gentrification is to your neighborhood.

My readers are 90 percent gay, and it's who I write for. I am not here to entertain straight people.

I've noticed throughout my long life that people with vested interest in things staying the way they are regularly insist that both change and accountability are impossible.

What I tend to tell my students is, “When you look in the mirror and see a smart, angry girl who wants to be free, you're seeing a paradigm that Kathy [Acker] helped bring into the recognizable.”

You have to have coalitions in order to make change in America.