William Gaddis said this quote

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

The room was filled with smoke, dry worn-out smoke retaining in it like a web the insectile cadavers of dry husks of words which had been spoken and should be gone, the breaths exhaled not to be breathed again. But the words went on, and in those brief interruptions between cigarettes the exhalations were rebreathed.

~ William Gaddis

Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest. William Gaddis, The Recognitions.

~ William Gaddis

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

~ William Gaddis