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 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 GaddisIf 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...mementos of this world, in which the things worth being were so easily exchanged for the things worth having.
William Gaddis