Quotes by : Katherine Dunn

It is, I suppose, the common grief of children at having to protect their parents from reality. It is....

I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words....

At its heart, 'Fat City' is not about boxing. It is a universal story of grim realities and toxic delusions.....

[Pride and power] are the same except that pride leaves the lights on and power can do it in the dark.....

In the United States, female fisticuffs were marginalized, first as erotic vaudeville in the 19th century....

I'm like every waitress in every diner I'm like every mom driving her kids to school. I'm nothing special....

It goes in streaks. But some things never go out of fashion.' Hunger artists, fat folks, giants, and....

The roses started him thinking, how the oddity of them was beautiful and how that oddity was contrived....

Sometimes when I felt the eyes crawling on me from all sides, I got scared thinking someone was looking....

American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought....