William Gaddis quotes

Justice? -- You get justice in the next world. In this one you have the law. (William Gaddis)
What's any artist, but the dregs of his work? the human shambles that follows it around. What's left of the man when the work's done but a shambles of apology. View quote
William Gaddis
I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge. View quote
William Gaddis
Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance. View quote
William Gaddis
How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me. View quote
William Gaddis
Why do you treat me as they do, as though I were exactly what I want to be. Why do we treat people that way? View quote
William Gaddis
If it is not beautiful for someone, it does not exist. View quote
William Gaddis
How real is any of the past, being every moment revalued to make the present possible... View quote
William Gaddis
It is the bliss of childhood that we are being warped most when we know it the least. View quote
William Gaddis
Power doesn't corrupt people; people corrupt power. View quote
William Gaddis
If you want to make a million you don't have to understand money, what you have to understand is people's fears about money. (William Gaddis)
Merry Christmas! the man threatened. View quote
William Gaddis
There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work. View quote
William Gaddis
We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are. View quote
William Gaddis