That was Youth with its reckless exuberance when all things were possible pursued by Age where we are now, looking back at what we destroyed, what we tore away from that self who could do more, and its work that's become my enemy because that's what I can tell you about, that Youth who could do anything.
William GaddisHow some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.
William GaddisIt is the bliss of childhood that we are being warped most when we know it the least.
William GaddisHe walked out into the cold morning asking himself this heretical question: Can you start measuring a minute at any instant you wish?
William Gaddis