21 Quotes by James Crumley

When even the bartenders lose their romantic notions, it’s time for a better world.

All drunks have theories, endlessly tedious arguments, both vocal and silent, with which to justify their drinking. They drink to forget or remember, to see more clearly or discover blindness, they drink out of fear of success or failure, drink to find a home and love or drink to get away. Their lives revolve around drink.

I make it a policy never to argue with drug lawyers: they have decent arguments and the best drugs.