How real is any of the past, being every moment revalued to make the present possible… — William Gaddis
It is the bliss of childhood that we are being warped most when we know it the least. — William Gaddis
What is it they want from the man that they didn’t get from the work? what do they expect? — William Gaddis
There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience — 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. — William Gaddis
I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire — William Gaddis
How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me. — William Gaddis
