Vollmann Quotes

“Great art projects a sense of inexhaustibility. In literature, particularly in poetry, this may be accomplished through ambiguity: Beneath each and every meaning that I can descry lie others, so that rereading holds out the prospect of new subtleties, inversions, secret codes and ineffabilities”
― William T. Vollmann, Kissing the Mask: Beauty, Understatement, and Femininity in Japanese Noh Theater

“[Uncentering the Earth] itself is uncentering in the best possible way. Vollmann is one of the deepest, most fully ensouled writers alive.”
― David Foster Wallace