Quote by William T. Vollmann

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

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

“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

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

It will be fun to give some to prostitutes,

— William T. Vollmann

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

Just for the hell of it, try to love someone as unlike you as possible.

— William T. Vollmann

“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

“Do you want to know what happiness is? Happiness is the absence of unpleasant information.”

— William T. Vollmann

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

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

Don't write for money.

— William T. Vollmann