“Life calls for the highest order of deafness; then we can be, so to speak, happy. It” — 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… — 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… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
“After all, one of life’s best pleasures is reading a book of perfect beauty; more pleasurable still is rereading that book; most… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
“Life is an extended camping trip. With a leaky, inferior tent one runs no more risk of rain than anyone else; but… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
“I do most sincerely believe that ethical behavior as we best construe it ought to be followed by us throughout our lives,… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
“But I don't think a river wants anything, except to be itself. Just like anybody and anything. I don't think it claimed… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
Everybody is an expert on one thing - that's what I learned in my high school journalism class - and that's, of… — 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
“Expressiveness in others enriched Mrs. Singer's confidence in her own interpretations, possibly because a certain fear that she had not accomplished anything… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
“Jimmy decided to get drunk—not just drunk enough to enjoy life (here he grinned, and Cecily smiled back), not just drunk enough… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
I don't believe in a personal god. It's good to give thanks, whether or not there's a god. There's no reason not… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
“E. Kruglikova, who in real life might never have met him (I have no confirmed information on this), smiled lustrously; she was… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
So much of the destruction on Earth has been wrought by men. Women are the ones who give life and try to… — 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
