Why do you treat me as they do, as though I were exactly what I want to be. Why do we treat people that way?
William GaddisHow some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.
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 GaddisHe was doing missionary work. But from the outset he had little success in convincing his charges of their responsibility for a sin committed at the beginning of creation, one which, as they understood it, they were ready and capable (indeed, they carried charms to assure it) of duplicating themselves. He did no better convincing them that a man had died on a tree to save them all: an act which one old Indian, if Gwyon had translated correctly, regarded as "rank presumption".
William Gaddis