“Why’d you call, boy? What did you want from me?" "The company of a friend, I think." "Always a cheap treat.” — James Sallis Copy Share Image
“You're not very good at this, are you?' 'At what I do, I'm the best. This isn't what I do.” — James Sallis Copy Share
“Rina’s always claimed that I expect too little from life,” Standard said. “Then at least you’ll never be disappointed.” — James Sallis Copy Share
The best predictor of preschool children's physical activity is simply being outdoors. — James Sallis Copy Share
“Some brainless comedy where actors with perfect white teeth spoke their lines then froze in place to let the laugh track unwind.” — James Sallis Copy Share
He existed a step or two to one side of the common world, largely out of sight, a shadow, all but invisible. Whatever he… — James Sallis Copy Share
“In my junior year I discovered books. . . . Devoured [them] the way other kids did candy or sandwiches, spent days hunched over… — James Sallis Copy Share
“We're professionals. People make deals, they need to stick to them. That's the way it works, if it's going to work at all.” — James Sallis Copy Share
Mostly what you lose with time, in memory, is the specificity of things, their exact sequence. It all runs together, becomes a watery soup.… — James Sallis Copy Share
Bombs fall and wipe out civilization as we know it, two things come up out of the ashes: roaches and F-150s. — James Sallis Copy Share
What critics might call eclectic, and Eastern folks quirky, we Southerners call cussedness-and it's the cornerstone of the American genius. As in: 'There's a… — James Sallis Copy Share
“Maybe he should turn around. Go back and tell them that’s what life was, a long series of things that didn’t go down the… — James Sallis Copy Share
“That you're Borges.' Manny laughed. 'Of course you are, you dumb shit. That's the whole point.” — James Sallis Copy Share
