“What is it they want from the man that they didn't get from the work? ...” — William Gaddis Quote

“What is it they want from the man that they didn't get from the work? What do they expect? What is there left when he's done with his work, what's any artist but the dregs of his work, the human shambles that follows it around?”

“I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge.”

“We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are.”

“Leia follows me like a vague smell.”

“I don't know if being stereotyped is good or bad. But, that is the trend industry follows.”

“There's something about the waltz in particular, where one person leads and the other follows, that helps you get in tune with each other.”