William T. Vollmann Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“I don't subscribe to organised religion. I've travelled enough to see that adherents of organised religion often attack adherents of other religions.”

“I might enjoy writing some ghost stories set in Japan because their whole idea about the spirit world is so interesting.”

“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.”

“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.”

“It's always, you know, a pleasant exercise to imagine my own death because then I'm so happy when I can stop.”

“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.”

“My father hates organized religion, probably because he hates the God who killed his little girl back in 1968. I find religions variously bemusing.”

“Not only am I physically and emotionally attracted to women, I also wonder what being a woman would be like.”

“Americans worry that Afghanistan has become a petri dish in which the germs of Islamic fanaticism are replicating - soon Afghans will be hijacking American planes and bombing embassies everywhere. And their fears are not necessarily unfounded. The Taliban are unemployed war veterans, ready and even eager to return to the battlefield.”

“Everybody is probably guilty of something. I'm sure that if anyone looked into my heart long enough, they could say, you know, 'Bill had some unkind thoughts back in second grade.'”