192 Quotes by James Ellroy

There’s a trick to lying. Hold to the same line, regardless of who you’re with.

I saw crime everywhere. Crime was not isolated incidents destined for ultimate solution and adjudication. Crime was the continual circumstance. It was all day, every day. The ramifications extended to the 12th of Never. This is a policeman’s view of crime. I did not know it then.

If it would’ve been me, I would’ve left Hutch out of it. ‘Cause Hutch, he was mean.

Cab drivers are night-riding denizens of the first order. They view wretched foibles from a gutter perspective.

So many wicked ways to scandal-skin a cat.

I told lies and wondered where I would go if my own past was all I had left.

She’s good to common folk. They make her feel authentic. She covets their approval in small doses.

He felt sandbagged. Doomsday, Armageddon. Booze begets instant misconduct and regret. He walked to the couch and fell down.

I didn’t know that costs accrue. I didn’t know that you always pay for what you suppress.