William Gaddis

I’ll tell you why yes, because why people lie is, because when people stop lying you know they’ve stopped caring.

There’s much more stupidity than there is malice in the world.

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

Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.

Fearful of missing anything, he read on, filled with this anticipation which was half terror, of coming upon something which would touch him, not simply touch him but lift him and carry him away.

Put on the lights there, now. Before we go any further here, has it ever occurred to any of you that all this is simply one grand misunderstanding? Since you’re not here to learn anything, but to be taught so you can pass these tests, knowledge has to be organized so it can be taught, and it has to be reduced to information so it can be organized do you follow that? In other words this leads you to assume that organization is an inherent property of knowledge itself, and that disorder and chaos are simply irrelevant forces that threaten it from outside. In fact it’s exactly the opposite. Order is simply a thin, perilous condition we try to impose on the basic reality of chaos…

One thing I’ve learned about the press is that they’re always hungry for a good story, and the more sensational the better. It’s in the nature of the job, and I understand that. The point is that if you are a little different, or a little outrageous.

Fake news is at an all time high. Where is their apology to me for all of the incorrect stories???

My people keep telling me I shouldn’t write letters like this to critics. The way I see it, critics get to say what they want to about my work, so why shouldn’t I be able to say what I want to about theirs?

I’ve met some great people that deal with me in the press. I’ve also met some people that were very dishonorable, frankly.

I can understand the British media and why they are doing that. It does not add up to much. I’m used in my life to not paying much attention to some things.

You know, it really doesn’t matter what the media write as long as you’ve got a young, and beautiful, piece of ass.

I don’t care what is written about me so long as it isn’t true.

We got killed in Newsweek.

I notice in some of the newspapers that they have taken a bit of an interest in me. According to one headline Jeremy Corbyn welcomed the prospect of an asteroid wiping out humanity. Asteroids are pretty controversial and it is not the kind of thing I would want to rule out… without a full debate at conference and a review so can we have the debate later in the week.

The point is that if you are a little different, or a little outrageous, or if you do things that are bold or controversial, the press is going to write about you.

The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.

I would rather have been beaten up in the media than live a life that wasn’t happy.

With the press there is no ‘off the record’.

Arianna Huffington is unattractive both inside and out. I fully understand why her former husband left her for a man – he made a good decision.

You can’t interview my brother!… We can call this thing off – right now!