William Gaddis

What is it they want from a man that they didn’t get from his work? What do they expect? What is there left of him when he’s done his work? 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.

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

It is a naked city. Faith is not pampered, nor hope encouraged; there is no place to lay one’s exhaustion: but instead pinnacles skewer it undisguised against vacancy.

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

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

The function of this school is custodial. It’s here to keep these kids off the streets until the girls are big enough to get pregnant and the boys are old enough to go out and hold up a gas station.

Look, I’m not a rich person. I’m a poor person with Money.

Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them.

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

Money makes your life easier. If you’re lucky to have it, you’re lucky.

The best thing I know about me, is that I’m rich

A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore.

I’m so naive about finances. Once when my mother mentioned an amount and I realized I didn’t understand, she had to explain: ‘That’s like three Mercedes.’ Then I understood.

In spite of the cost of living, it’s still popular.

I say, not in a braggadocios way, I’ve made billions and billions of dollars dealing with people all around the world.

Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.

Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it.

A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place.

In God we trust; all others must pay cash.

Budget: a mathematical confirmation of your suspicions.

Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.