William T. Vollmann

Quotes

• “Looking at her, thinking of her transported him, which struck him as vile because now it was hard for him not to despise...”
• “But, as I have said, the bugs had no interest in getting us…and no great curiosity or enthusiasm about us as such; from ...”
• “Life is an extended camping trip. With a leaky, inferior tent one runs no more risk of rain than anyone else; but if it ...”
• “But where corpses were buried secretly, there the grass grows thick; such signs (and there are ever so many others!) may...”
• “The smoke detectors began to ring; for they were battery-powered and thus still functioned, just as a record can still b...”
• “Death is ordinary. Behold it, subtract its patterns and lessons from those of the death that weapons bring, and maybe th...”
• “Perhaps Bug and Tony should have been allies. But any successful structure of domination always gets the weak to reject ...”
• “Death cannot be experienced either by the dead or the living.”
• “The hospital bulked darkly in the darkness.”