My perception of the human animal is as an extremely dangerous predator. That's who I perceive us to be as a species. Maybe the most dangerous predator on the planet, with the exception of a few microbes. I'm really grateful… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share
People have been trying for centuries to manipulate genes, enhance certain traits, and achieve racial purity, even in humans. And of course I thought of the Nazis and their efforts toward Aryan magnificence. — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
Though 'Fat City' was written long before cellphones or the Internet, its human apparatus is state of the art. — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
A boxing gym is a place where men are allowed to be kind to one another. — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
My own theory about the phlegmatic qualities and properties of the English is the mountain of pure white sugar hydrocarbons they consume every day… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
Sometimes we followed the crops, doing migrant labor. We did several years of tenant farming in Western Oregon starting in the early '50s. Later,… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
My handwriting was nothing to write home about, and I had this idea that calligraphy was like taking Latin in high school: that it… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
“There are those whose own vulgar normality is so apparent and stultifying that they strive to escape it. They affect flamboyant behavior and claim originality according to the fashionable eccentricities of their time. They claim brains or talent or indifference to mores in desperate attempts to deny their own mediocrity. These are frequently artists and performers, adventurers and wide-life devotees.… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share
Only a lunatic would want to be president. These lunatics are created deliberately by those who wish to be presided over. — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
In a really good, closely matched situation, the style of the boxer is every bit as explicit and specific to him as a painter's… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
