William Gaddis

Originality is a device that untalented people use to impress other untalented people to protect themselves from talented people…

The painters could be identified by dirty fingernails; the writers by conversation in labored monosyllables and aggressive vulgarities which disguised their minds.

That’s what I can’t stand. I know I’ll bounce back, and that’s what I can’t stand.

Mementos of this world, in which the things worth being were so easily exchanged for the things worth having.

There was the cell where Fr. Eulalio, a thriving lunatic of eighty-six who was castigating himself for unchristian pride at having all the vowels in his name, and greatly revered for his continuous weeping, went blind in an ecstasy of such howling proportions that his canonization was assured.

I mean why should somebody go steal and break the law to get all they can when there’s always some law where you can be legal and get it all anyway!

Money doesn’t talk, it swears.

I have no interest in becoming a tax exile and living somewhere I don’t want to – I just want to be at home with my family.

Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

Ah, yes, divorce … from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man’s genitals through his wallet

Don’t depend on anyone but yourself for providing financial security.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.

Money isn’t everything, but it’s a long way ahead of what comes next.

You can’t tell a millionaire’s son from a billionaire’s.

If you can count your money, you don’t have a billion dollars.

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions – he had money, too.

The want of money is the root of all evil.

I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.

Money is indeed the most important thing in the world.

Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.