Katherine Dunn

“There were oil wells everywhere. The soil had been abandoned to dust and lizards, and the backyard of every wind-blistered bungalow in…

— Katherine Dunn

I'm just a regular Joe.

— Katherine Dunn

“Arty's growing flock, however, was different. I dreamed one night that Arty cried them into the world. They came out of his…

— Katherine Dunn

When your mama was the geek, my dreamlets," Papa would say, "she made the nipping off of noggins such a crystal mystery…

— Katherine Dunn

The truth is always an insult or a joke, lies are generally tastier. We love them. The nature of lies is to…

— Katherine Dunn

A film adaptation is, I hope, the director's version. A new creation.

— Katherine Dunn

We came to Portland because there was a good alternative public school. Friends who lived there told me about it, and my…

— Katherine Dunn

The things we do to our children - most of the evil in the world is not done with bad intentions but…

— Katherine Dunn

“It's interesting that when these individuals choose-and it is their choice always-to endure voluntary amputations for their own personal benefit, society professes…

— Katherine Dunn

“Understand, daughter, that the only reason for your existing was as a tribute to your uncle-father. You were meant to love him.…

— Katherine Dunn

“How proud I am, dancing in the air full of eyes rubbing at me uncovered, unable to look away because of what…

— Katherine Dunn

I know that some of the finest writing I've ever read has been sports writing, whatever the topic was, whatever the sport…

— Katherine Dunn

Asked why they wanted to fight, the young women said they enjoyed it, just as some men and boys do.

— Katherine Dunn

Sometimes just looking at [my parents] I wanted to bash their heads with a tire iron. Not to kill them, just to…

— Katherine Dunn

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

— Katherine Dunn

“She talks. People talk easily to me. They think a bald albino hunchback can’t hide anything. My worst is all out in…

— Katherine Dunn

“the top head would have controlled everything and made his poor little butt-brother miserable.”

— Katherine Dunn

I'm slow by everybody's standards. But not by mine.

— Katherine Dunn

Within a social structure, a familial structure, or a cultural structure of various kinds, there is a substitute for actual freedom. I…

— Katherine Dunn

Training of female athletes is so new that the limits of female possibility are still unknown.

— Katherine Dunn

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

— Katherine Dunn

Beside Mama, in my own folding chair, with my feet sticking out in front of me, I thought about my own innards.…

— Katherine Dunn

I was reading a lot of European history, and I thought Attila the Hun had gotten a bad rap.

— Katherine Dunn

I do consider the human capacity for violence is the central issue of the social contract. In boxing we have a peculiarly…

— Katherine Dunn

In the United States, female fisticuffs were marginalized, first as erotic vaudeville in the 19th century and later as serious competition developed…

— Katherine Dunn