192 Quotes by James Ellroy

Howard got sex-crazy in the winter and probably wanted to send him out on a poontang prowl: Schwab's Drugstore, the extra huts at Fox and Universal, Brownie snapshots of well-lunged girls naked from the waist up. His Majesty's yes or no, then standard gash contracts to the yes's--one-liners in RKO turkeys in exchange for room and board at Hughes Enterprises' fuck pads and frequent nighttime visits from The Man himself.

You’ve made a wise choice, lad...I won’t insult your intelligence with the word ‘trust’.

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

The driver drove by roadway Braille

America was never innocent. We popped our cherry on the boat over and looked back with no regrets. You can't ascribe our fall from grace to any single event or set of circumstances. You can't lose what you lacked at conception.Mass-market nostalgia gets you hopped up for a past that never existed. Hagiography sanctifies shuck-and-jive politicians and reinvents their expedient gestures as moments of great moral weight.

The wildest ride in modern crime novel exoticum. A novel so steeped in milieu that it feels as if you've blasted to mars in the grip of a demon who won't let you go. Read this book, savor the language-it's the last-and the most compelling word in thrillers.

I am a writer. I could not afford to take 15 months off from my writing career to play detective.

I think I'm out of crime fiction now, and I think the dividing line is American Tabloid.

I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime.