Quotes by : William H. Gass

The responsibility of any science, any pure pursuit, is ultimately to itself, and on this point physics,....

They try to thrive. To multiply. To make murder a method of management.

The true alchemists do not change lead into gold they change the world into words.

Sing of disappointments more repeated than the batter of the sea, of lives embittered by resentments....

In general, I would think that at present prose writers are much in advance of the poets. In the old....

Freud thought that a psychosis was a waking dream, and that poets were daydreamers too, but I wonder....

Lost in the corn rows, I remember feeling just another stalk, and thus this country takes me over in....

As Borges has taught us, all the books in the library are contemporary. Great poems are like granaries:....

I write because I hate. A lot. Hard.

Every day he thought would last forever, and the night forever, and the dawn drag eternally another long....