Can you be happy with the movies, and the ads, and the clothes in the stores, and the doctors, and the eyes as you walk down the street all telling you there is something wrong with you? No. You cannot be happy. Because, you poor darling baby, you believe them. (Katherine Dunn, "Geek Love")
He must love me, i thought, amazed. A faint whiff of nausea hit me at seeing pain as proof of love, but it seemed true. Unavoidable. (Katherine Dunn, "Geek Love")
It is coincidence, I decide, and I am getting old and batty, thinking the universe revolves around me. (Katherine Dunn, "Geek Love")
There are parts of Texas where a fly lives 10,000 years and a man can't die soon enough. (Katherine Dunn, "Geek Love")
There are parts of Texas where a fly lives ten thousand years and a man can't die soon enough. Time gets strange there from too much sky, too many miles from crack to crease in the flat surface of the land. (Katherine Dunn, "Geek Love")
They thought to use and shame me but I win out by nature, because a true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born. (Katherine Dunn, "Geek Love")
What's bred in the bones, when you have bones, comes through. And they looked at her, and watched her, wanted to squirt her full of baby juice. (Katherine Dunn, "Geek Love")
What I think happens, and that you have to acknowledge though, is that a director uses a book as a launching pad for his own work and that's always very flattering. (Katherine Dunn)
In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a monstrous defect, that it is also a crucial survival tool. (Katherine Dunn)
This idea that males are physically aggressive and females are not has distinct drawbacks for both sexes. (Katherine Dunn)
Training of female athletes is so new that the limits of female possibility are still unknown. (Katherine Dunn)
But the animation has become very good, and I think that a movie is not a book, and a book is not a movie. (Katherine Dunn)
The intense campaigns against domestic violence, rape, sexual harassment, and inequity in the schools all too often depend on an image of women as weak and victimized. (Katherine Dunn)
I think genetic research is a fascinating and fertile area. (Katherine Dunn)
Let's just say, the American school of suburban angst is not my cup of tea. (Katherine Dunn)