S: But Chris, I think his embarrassment isn't in relation to you or me but to himself. What can he do? C: I hate being thrown into such a physical state. S: Isn't that experiencing life to the hilt? C: No, it's just a dumb infatuation. I'm so ashamed. S: But even if his silence hurts you, isn't that what attracted you to him? The fact that he was inaccessible. So, I think there is a contradiction there, at least nothing to feel ashamed of -.

— Chris Kraus

So don't be too fast to attribute yourself with miraculous sexual powers, The Christ of Love. Emma and I created you out of nothing, or very little, and in all fairness, You owe us everything. While you flounder in your daily life we have built you up as a truly powerful icon of erotic integrity.

— Chris Kraus

There were some low moments out there on the road tonight—abandonment and what’s the point?—but then I pulled in a radio station from Albuquerque playing historical rap and breakdance circa 1982. Kurtis Blow and disco synthesizers made me feel like I could drive all night.

— Chris Kraus

...to understand infatuation, how the loved person can become a holding pattern for all the tattered ends of memory, experience and thought you've ever had.

— Chris Kraus

We suicide ourselves for our own survival. Is there any hope of dipping back into the past and circling round it like you can in art?

— Chris Kraus

What's the matter?" you asked, seizing an idea. "Did I burst your balloon - destroy the fantasy?" I struggled for a way to answer this without my clothes.... Well his was very cruel, but loving you'd become a full-time job, and I wasn't ready to be unemployed.

— Chris Kraus

When the form's in place, everything within it can be pure feeling.

— Chris Kraus

When you're living so intensely in your head there isn't any different between what you imagine and what actually takes place. Therefore, you're both omnipotent and powerless.

— Chris Kraus

Why is female vulnerability still only acceptable when it's neuroticism and personal; when it feeds back on itself? Why do people still not get it when we handle vulnerability like philosophy, at some remove?

— Chris Kraus

Your cowboy persona meshed so well with the dreams Chris has of the torn and silent men she's been rejected by. The fact that you don't return messages turns your answerphone into a blank screen onto which we can project our fantasies.

— Chris Kraus