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Self-deception is a pessimistic definition of optimism.
— William T. Vollmann
The landscape around us is but a shadow of the landscape within us.
— William T. Vollmann
This is my final book. Any subsequent productions bearing my name will have been composed by a ghost.
— William T. Vollmann
Her breasts were big and sad like owls' eyes.
— William T. Vollmann
When I go train hopping and I look up into the sky, there are always so many more stars than I remember there were.
— William T. Vollmann
Kabuki is the way that I so often write; Noh is how I would write if I were more 'spiritual,' more understated, or perhaps just older.
— William T. Vollmann
I just don't wanna be an ostrich. That's all.
— William T. Vollmann
We always see ourselves as constant, and others as less so, no matter what policy shifts we ourselves may have been guilty of.
— William T. Vollmann
Not only am I physically and emotionally attracted to women, I also wonder what being a woman would be like.
— William T. Vollmann
I might enjoy writing some ghost stories set in Japan because their whole idea about the spirit world is so interesting.
— William T. Vollmann
The reformed addict who feels the craving almost believes in it, then merely smiles ...
— William T. Vollmann
Generally speaking, the deader the author, the more worthwhile the work.
— William T. Vollmann
I'm still a marginal figure living from book to book, but, as long as I'm producing labour as a good Marxist prole, I guess I'm satisfied.
— William T. Vollmann
Maybe life is a process of trading hopes for memories.
— William T. Vollmann
Just for the hell of it, try to love someone as unlike you as possible.
— William T. Vollmann
The hospital bulked darkly in the darkness.
— William T. Vollmann
I've always felt I want to be of service to the world somehow. I haven't yet figured out how to do it, and I may never figure out how to do it.
— William T. Vollmann
I've come to recognize that questions of law and justice are at the same time questions of power.
— William T. Vollmann
Such mental haziness is in order, given the delightful vagueness of the terrain.
— William T. Vollmann
It's always, you know, a pleasant exercise to imagine my own death because then I'm so happy when I can stop.
— William T. Vollmann
Well let the gentlemen of the bourgeoisie remember Berlin any way they please. As Comrade Khruschev promised us, we will bury them.
— William T. Vollmann
It will be fun to give some to prostitutes,
— William T. Vollmann
At least for me, it takes more knowledge to write fiction than nonfiction. At least about someplace that I begin with a lot of ignorance about.
— William T. Vollmann
I don't subscribe to organised religion. I've travelled enough to see that adherents of organised religion often attack adherents of other religions.
— William T. Vollmann
There will come a time when nobody reads my books and no one remembers who I was. And in the meantime, I'll do it my way.
— William T. Vollmann
Plato says that as one learns to love, the image of any specific beloved can be left behind for knowledge of the Good.
— William T. Vollmann
Perhaps Bug and Tony should have been allies. But any successful structure of domination always gets the weak to reject each other.
— William T. Vollmann
Lecktrickery? grinned the fool boys, rubbing their rabbits' feet against the spell of these longest syllables in all Tarnation.
— William T. Vollmann
Do you want to know what happiness is? Happiness is the absence of unpleasant information.
— William T. Vollmann
There was no one as good as he at using the ovens of logic to bake agreeable results.
— William T. Vollmann
The times are new, but the informers are old.
— William T. Vollmann
The instant people specialize, it's in their interest to dehumanize the people their specialized function operates upon.
— William T. Vollmann
Death cannot be experienced either by the dead or the living.
— William T. Vollmann
We Communists say, if it has no practically measurable effect, it's not people's art!
— William T. Vollmann
Lovers may never meet again, but the ways of enemies oft do intersect: This proves some corollary about gravity.
— William T. Vollmann
When it comes to revolutionaries, trust only the sad ones. The enthusiastic ones are the oppressors of tomorrow.
— William T. Vollmann
Thus the protagonist of this Dream of mine is ooze, here and forever call'd Oozymandias the King.
— 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 the life that I lead.
— William T. Vollmann
I've never shot a civilian except when under orders.
— William T. Vollmann
(Can you understand your own dreams, which arise with mushrooms' rank richness in the night-forests within your skull?)
— 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
It was about as easy getting the Statue of Liberty to spread cunny, which did take some dynamite persuasion.
— William T. Vollmann
At least I hope - that the fiction I've written so far has flaws but has mostly been successful.
— William T. Vollmann
Don't write for money.
— William T. Vollmann