Adulthood Quote by Katherine Dunn

Though 'Fat City' was written long before cellphones or the Internet, its human apparatus is state of the art.

— Katherine Dunn

A true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born.

— Katherine Dunn

I think genetic research is a fascinating and fertile area.

— Katherine Dunn

A boxing gym is a place where men are allowed to be kind to one another.

— Katherine Dunn

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

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

There should be unemployment insurance for fictional people.

— Katherine Dunn

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

“There are those whose own vulgar normality is so apparent and stultifying that they strive to escape it. They affect flamboyant behavior and claim…

— Katherine Dunn

Only a lunatic would want to be president. These lunatics are created deliberately by those who wish to be presided over.

— Katherine Dunn

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

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