Quotes by : William Gaddis

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

Justice? -- You get justice in the next world. In this one you have the law.

Has it ever occurred to any of you that all this is simply one grand misunderstanding? Since you're not....

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

-Money? in a voice that rustled.

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

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

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....

All we’ve got left to protect here is a system that’s set up to promote the meanest possibilities....