Quotes by : William T. Vollmann

It was about as easy getting the Statue of Liberty to spread cunny, which did take some dynamite persuasion.....

Rising up, rising down! History shambles on! What are we left with? A few half-shattered Greek stelae;....

The smoke detectors began to ring; for they were battery-powered and thus still functioned, just as a....

Perhaps Bug and Tony should have been allies. But any successful structure of domination always gets....

But, as I have said, the bugs had no interest in getting us…and no great curiosity or enthusiasm about....

Death cannot be experienced either by the dead or the living.

In the preface of "The Rifles" "Another rule we followed was never kill an animal that we were not going....

Life is an extended camping trip. With a leaky, inferior tent one runs no more risk of rain than anyone....

Death is ordinary. Behold it, subtract its patterns and lessons from those of the death that weapons....

The hospital bulked darkly in the darkness.