The Atlas Quotes

“The best way to smoke crack is to suck it from the tube of broken glass as gently as you'd suck the crack-smoke breath from the lips of the prostitute who's kissing you.”
― William T. Vollmann, The Atlas

“Hell is anything which continues long enough.”
― William T. Vollmann, The Atlas

“keeping count of the number of N.E.’s. — What are N.E.’s? I said. — Nipple erections, son, he explained. You must be a tenderfoot not to know that.”
― William T. Vollmann, The Atlas

“In hitchhiking as in so many other departments, the surest way not to get something is to need it.”
― William T. Vollmann, The Atlas

“He had begun to believe that this might be one of those perfect days which are sometimes given to you so gently and lovingly that they are half over before you comprehend their perfection.”
― William T. Vollmann, The Atlas