James Lee Burke

“We’re wayfaring strangers. We’re born alone, we die alone.”

— James Lee Burke

That's one of the great advantages of age. You can say, I don't want to, I don't care, you can throw temper…

— James Lee Burke

“I sometimes subscribe to the belief that all historical events occur simultaneously, like a dream in the mind of God. Perhaps it…

— James Lee Burke

“The band played “La Jolie Blon” a second time. For me, there is no more haunting ballad in the world. Its origins…

— James Lee Burke

I feel blessed in the knowledge that I probably belong to the last generation that will remember what we call "traditional America."

— James Lee Burke

“I'm over the hill for come-on lines. On a quiet day, I can hear my liver rotting. For exercise, I fall down.”

— James Lee Burke

“Mortality is not kind, and do not let anyone tell you it is. If there is such a thing as wisdom, and…

— James Lee Burke

There is no higher form of artistic expression then film

— James Lee Burke

“It's a great burden, being one of the good guys.”

— James Lee Burke

I believe every...man remembers the girl he thinks he should have married. She reappears to him in his lonely moments, or he…

— James Lee Burke

There's no substitute for loyalty.

— James Lee Burke

“I guess that seems like an absurd premise until we consider the possibility that the dead are always with us, beckoning from…

— James Lee Burke

Neither our own passing nor the passing of an era is a tragedy, no matter how much we would like to think…

— James Lee Burke

“Colored or not, we all pick the white man's cotton.”

— James Lee Burke

“He was riding back through a doorway in time to a place that had nothing to do with the airplanes, and motorized…

— James Lee Burke

Age is a peculiar kind of thief. It slips up on you and steps inside your skin and is so quiet and…

— James Lee Burke

I used to save all my rejection slips because I told myself, one day I'm going to autograph these and auction them.…

— James Lee Burke

“I used to know a carnival man turned preacher who said the key to his success was understanding the people of what…

— James Lee Burke

“Coincidence is your Higher Power acting with anonymity.”

— James Lee Burke

“But no one could say he hadn't gotten even. He could not count the field women whom he had sexually degraded and…

— James Lee Burke

One day you'll have a quiet heart.

— James Lee Burke

And every good artist knows that the gift comes from somewhere else, and it's there for a reason, and that's to make…

— James Lee Burke

You have two choices in life. You either die or do something with your time. You're going to be doing something -…

— James Lee Burke

“The armies of the night are faceless and mindless and the modern equivalent of Visigoths, but when they have a leader, their…

— James Lee Burke

“The boos always come from the cheap seats. We gain no wisdom by imposing our way on others”

— James Lee Burke