Quotes by : William Gaddis

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Women get desperate, but they don't understand despair.

The ship's surgeon was a spotty unshaven little man whose clothes, arrayed with smudges, drippings, and....

Justice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.

-Money? in a voice that rustled.

Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest." William Gaddis, The Recognitions.

The room was filled with smoke, dry worn-out smoke retaining in it like a web the insectile cadavers....

Then, what is sacrelige [sic]? If it is nothing more than a rebellion against dogma, it is eventually....

Venerable age had not, for him, arranged that derelict landscape against which it is privileged to sit....

If you want to make a million you don't have to understand money, what you have to understand is people's....