William Gaddis

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

— William Gaddis

#money #money

Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance. ↗

— William Gaddis

#deliberate #ignorance #stupidity

How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me. ↗

— William Gaddis

#beyond #books #boredom #come #dying

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

— William Gaddis

#distressing #front #his #more #nothing

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power. ↗

— William Gaddis

#people #power

He was the only person caught in the collapse, and afterward, most of his work was recovered too, and it is still spoken of, when it is noted, with high regard, though seldom played. ↗

— William Gaddis

#collapse #high #his #most #noted

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

— William Gaddis

#justice #law #next #world #you

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

#comics #gets #live #more #time