The instant people specialize, it's in their interest to dehumanize the people their specialized function operates upon. — 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
A common measure of poverty is how much money you have in relation to other people - that is useful as far… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
The instant people specialize, its in their interest to dehumanize the people their specialized function operates upon. — 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
Are you a censor? Do you tell people not to say “girl”? Shame on you! If nothing offends you, you’re a saint… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
I think that there always have been and always will be at least two Americas - the poor America, the second America,… — 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
