If it is not beautiful for someone, it does not exist.

- William Gaddis

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

- William Gaddis

He walked out into the cold morning asking himself this heretical question: Can you start measuring a minute at any instant you wish?

- William Gaddis

How real is any of the past, being every moment revalued to make the present possible.

- 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 nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there…

- William Gaddis

Power doesn't corrupt people; people corrupt power.

- William Gaddis

It is the bliss of childhood that we are being warped most when we know it the least.

- William Gaddis

There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.

- William Gaddis