Kathy Acker Quotes

I just think that wigs and makeup and costumes completely transform me.

My first name used to be Leslie. I snipped that off and put my middle name, which was Steven, in the front.

I shall refract myself, yes, I shall no longer be known as the prism.

Human beings do metamorphose. They change their identity constantly. However, each new identity thrives on the delusion that it was always in possession of the body it has just conquered.

Hats have power. Hats can change you into someone else.

Ask any human being alive if they're the same person they were seven years ago and they're going to tell you they aren't.

I have the feeling that I know who I am, only I'm not anymore.

Maybe she couldn't know who she was today. Maybe it was enough to know that she was no longer who she was before.

What I like doing is being a different person. Every character is kind of different. So being able to be that person and then when you leave you're yourself again. So it's kind of weird to be like two different people, and I think that's kind of fun.

Going from Giraud to Moebius, I twisted the strip; changed dimensions. I was the same and yet someone else. Moebius is the result of my duality.

She is no longer I, she is too long ago, she is only she.

I love this idea of shape-shifting and changing when you put on clothes, and turn into somebody else.

She wondered if this was true of every parent: if, prior to having children, they all used to be someone else.

When you grow up these days, you're told you're going to have four or five different careers during your lifetime. But what they don't tell you is that you're also going to be four or five different people along the way.

What I mean is this: you meet someone, you think about them. You're already changing because of the way you think about them. You meet them again, you think about them some more, you're changing again. And on it goes. You are changing right now. Before my eyes.

But I wasn't the girl I'd been when I left, and I knew it.

One of the suckiest and most frustrating facts of life is that sometimes relationship just end, often without reason. I truly believe that sometimes both men and women simply run out of love, even when there was a lot of it in the beginning

The love had just vanished. We're still friendly.

I used to be somebody. Now I’m somebody else.

[Raymond Roussel] said that after his first book he expected that the next morning there would be a kind of aura around his person and that everyone in the street would be able to see that he had written a book. This is the obscure desire harboured by everyone who writes. It is true that the first text one writes is neither written for others, nor because one is what one is: one writes to become other than what one is. One tries to modify one's way of being through the act of writing.

Transformation Isn't easy when most of the people in your life think you're already perfect, and want you to stay just how they see you. Try to begin a new phase, you'd better expect push-back. Try to create a whole new you, your friend list will shrink considerably.

I'm not the same person that I used to be.

I'd be smiling and chatting away, and my mind would be floating around somewhere else, like a balloon with a broken string.

We passionately long that there may be another life in which we shall be similar to what we are here below. But we do not pause to reflect that, even without waiting for that other life, in this life, after a few years we are unfaithful to what we have been, to what we wished to remain immortally.

Once you put a mask on, if you allow it to, it can really transform you, and that's what a costume does.