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 hand. – Katherine Dunn
I was reading a lot of European history, and I thought Attila the Hun had gotten a bad rap. – Katherine Dunn
We’re living in a high-tech world. So much of our stimulus and entertainment comes from things that are quite abstract and disembodied. – Katherine Dunn
I don’t think there is such a thing as an idea without words, because your language is your thought. – Katherine Dunn
I hate to tell you this, but I did not know what the National Book Award was when I got the call. – Katherine Dunn
In the United States, female fisticuffs were marginalized, first as erotic vaudeville in the 19th century and later as serious competition developed in the first half of the 20th. Legal wars waged by boxers in the 1960s and ’70s won women the right to compete professionally nationwide. – Katherine Dunn
I don’t like to see anyone suffer, and there’s a very, very fine line between being healthy and working and totally down and out. – 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 bloody day of the year – the stiff upper lip is petrified sugar; that’s Bermuda’s revenge, the with death, the rotting future square in the teeth of it. – Katherine Dunn
Writing nonfiction of various kinds has been instructive and entertaining as well as paying the rent. – Katherine Dunn
Boxing gyms are more than training facilities. They are sanctuaries in bad neighborhoods for troubled kids and shrines to the traditions of the sport. The gym is home. For many, it’s the safest place they know. – Katherine Dunn
This idea that males are physically aggressive and females are not has distinct drawbacks for both sexes. – Katherine Dunn
There are those whose own vulgar normality is so apparent and stultifying that they strive to escape it. They affect flamboyant behaviour 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. – 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 was one of the bricks, the building bricks, that you had to understand about the forms of writing. – Katherine Dunn