James Crumley Quotes
- I have learned some things. Modern life is warfare without end: take no prisoners, leave no wounded, eat the dead--that's environmentally sound.
- I try to stay two drinks ahead of reality and three behind a drunk
- There's no accounting for laws. Or the changes wrought by men and time.
- Youth endures all things, kings and poetry and love. Everything but time.
- Home is where you hang your hangover.
- I knew the men were probably terrible people who whistled at pretty girls, treated their wives like servants, and voted for Nixon every chance they…
- Lady bartenders live a tougher life than anybody knows. -- Dancing Bear
- When I finally caught up with Abraham Trahearne, he was drinking beer with an alcoholic bulldog named Fireball Roberts in a ramshackle joint just outside…
- ...the sun rose each morning to stare into my face with the blank but touching gaze of a lovely retarded child.
- I had done either too much coke or too little, a constant problem in my life.