William Gaddis citations

“Justice? -- You get justice in the next world. In this one you have the law.”

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

“What's any artist, but the dregs of his work? the human shambles that follows it around. What's left of the man when the work's done but a shambles of apology.”

“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”

“Merry Christmas! the man threatened.”

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

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