22 Quotes by George V. Higgins

This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid.

He's not a bad guy. He just didn't get any luck and by the time he figured out what was happening to him it was too late to do anything about it.

It was darker than a carload of assholes.

Jackie Brown at twenty-six, with no expression on his face, said that he could get some guns.

Egotism: The art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.

Data is what distinguishes the dilettante from the artist.

The Red Sox are a religion. Every year we re-enact the agony and the temptation in the Garden. Baseball child's play? Hell, up here in Boston it's a passion play.

Nobody ever got started on a career as a writer by exercising good judgment, and no one ever will, either, so the sooner you break the habit of relying on yours, the faster you will advance.

What You Lose on the Swings You Make Up on the Merry-Go-Round,