William T. Vollmann Quote

You know all that sympathy that you feel for an abused child who suffers without a good mom or dad to love and care for them? Well, they don't stay children forever. No one magically becomes an adult...

Love is just a contact of no refusal.

He who dares not offend cannot be honest.

You say you love rain, but you use an umbrella to walk under it. You say you love sun, but you seek shelter when it is shining. You say you love wind, but when it comes you close your windows. So that...

Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.

The hurt that troubled children create is never greater than the hurt they feel.

A good character is not only about the good person people know you to be. Your ability to tell the truth about how bad you had been is also a good character.

Love feeds on deception.

Even so have I given the womb of the earth to those that be sown in it in their times.

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.