Quotes by : Katherine Dunn

Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate.

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

I get glimpses of the horror of normalcy. Each of these innocents on the street is engulfed by a terror....

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

Can you be happy with the movies, and the ads, and the clothes in the stores, and the doctors, and the....

We came to Portland because there was a good alternative public school. Friends who lived there told....

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

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

I knew what he felt. The huge buoyant air sack of love that filled his body had just exploded and the....

It is coincidence, I decide, and I am getting old and batty, thinking the universe revolves around me.....