Everybody is probably guilty of something. I'm sure that if anyone looked into my heart long enough, they could say, you know,… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
Really what it gets down to is that my idea of the American life, the American dream, whatever, is that I can… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
I think most of us who live into our 50s have had a few experiences with death. You know, we see people… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
The first chance I had to go to Japan, which was in the early nineties, I went to a Noh play. I… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
There have been times when I'm writing about things that are personally embarrassing. Like any human being, sometimes I can't help but… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
It's always, you know, a pleasant exercise to imagine my own death because then I'm so happy when I can stop. — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
Some friends and I, we went right up there behind the studio and we got on a train, we could tell it was going… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
I read and write for most of the day, but I do let myself be interrupted by real life. I enjoy going out with… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
“A treble clef, for example, resembles a Muscovite or Leningrader in a bulky hooded parka. A bass clef bends as simply and painfully as… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
Oh, ants, my sisters, good old honeydew-seekers! From close up you are sticky and shiny and gristly; and your nymphs have parasitic red mites… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
If I didn't feel that I was doing something or trying to do something for others, then I would have very little excuse for… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
Just for the hell of it, try to love someone as unlike you as possible. — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
“The shortest man, codenamed RIMSKY, said to me that freedom means understanding our place within the laws of history; we are more free when… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
“Do you want to know what happiness is? Happiness is the absence of unpleasant information.” — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
My father hates organized religion, probably because he hates the God who killed his little girl back in 1968. I find religions variously bemusing. — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
There's an Inuit myth about the origin of the human race. There were two brothers, and the younger brother eventually gets changed into a… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
