Quotes by : William Gaddis

What's an artist but the dregs of his work - the human shambles that follows it around?

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

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....

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....

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

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