Quotes by : William T. Vollmann

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

But where corpses were buried secretly, there the grass grows thick; such signs (and there are ever so....

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

Looking at her, thinking of her transported him, which struck him as vile because now it was hard for....

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

He was really quite addicted to her face, and yet for the longest time he could not remember it at all,....

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.