27 Quotes by H.L. Sudler

The mirror doesn't lie. For all the bad things we tend to see about ourselves, there are good things too. We just have to bring them to the front. And when we see them, other people do too. And they come to appreciate them and respect them, despite our imperfections. Sometimes they come to love them. But only if we love ourselves first.

If you take yourself too seriously, no one will. But if you don't take yourself seriously enough, no one else will either.

A man can paint himself into a corner, without actually realizing he's painting himself into a corner. Or maybe he realizes it but doesn't know how to get himself out of the corner. He wants things to change but doesn't know how to make them change. He hears only his own voice in his ears, telling him he can't win, doesn't deserve to win. Or he hears only negative voices telling him he can't have more, be more.

We're a newspaper. A dying breed of media. Hell, we're already dead, we just don't know it. But we keep coming to work. You know why? Because it's in our blood. To tell the world what's going on. To keep them woke. It's our job to protect this world...

In Los Angeles everybody wears a mask, telling stories that aren't quite the truth but aren't quite a lie. The warm weather makes it easy to stay. The strange thing is: you can feel your soul being bought and sold, little by little, piece by piece. You feel it dying, being taken away from you, dripping out of you. Especially at night, when it's a dark, starless sky. Night as you know it, and night as we know it...here...are two different things.

The Chateau Marmont Hotel sat on a rise and looked like something constructed in the heyday of Los Angeles, back when there was such a thing as Hollywoodland. It was a regal, but spooky castle-like structure filled with ghosts, and the ghosts of parties long gone. It was as if the hotel was a living, breathing entity that had claimed its fair share of souls.

The best horror is always about more than the horror you see.

I don't work according to anyone's schedule, but according to my ethics.

Warren was nearly hoarse as he wiped the tears from his eyes and face. "I need to change. I need to protect my family. I need to earn who I am.