Quote by James Crumley

Consideration touches more deeply and longer than passion.

— James Crumley

I try to stay two drinks ahead of reality and three behind a drunk

— James Crumley

The only person more cynical than a drunk is a reformed drunk.

— James Crumley

“This was the place, the place I would have come on my own wandering binge, come here and lodged like a marble in a…

— James Crumley

Lady bartenders live a tougher life than anybody knows.

— James Crumley

Maybe I will go to Paris. Who knows? But I’ll sure as hell never Go back to Texas again

— James Crumley

...the sun rose each morning to stare into my face with the blank but touching gaze of a lovely retarded child.

— James Crumley

“Sadness softened her nasal twang, that ubiquitous accent that had drifted out of the Appalachian hills and hollows, across the southern plains, across the…

— James Crumley

“I chuckled like Aldo Ray. If I had to endure his l'homme du monde act, he had to suffer my jaded alcoholic private eye.”

— James Crumley

I have learned some things. Modern life is warfare without end: take no prisoners, leave no wounded, eat the dead--that's environmentally sound.

— James Crumley

When I finally caught up with Abraham Trahearne, he was drinking beer with an alcoholic bulldog named Fireball Roberts in a ramshackle joint just…

— James Crumley

“Son, never trust a man who doesn’t drink because he’s probably a self-righteous sort, a man who thinks he knows right from wrong all…

— James Crumley