There are a lot of Ellroy lifts, man. This guy went to school. But then there's a willful thing that comes over me - God gives it to me - where I go, "That's real nice, let's just go home, pat yourself on the back, good dog, good dog, and wake up in the morning and go to work."
James EllroyWhereโs your sketch pad?โ I asked. โฆ โI gave that up,โ Kay said. โI wasnโt very good, so I changed my major.โ โTo what?โ โTo pre-med, then psychology, then English lit, then history.โ โI like a woman who knows what she wants.โ Kay smiled. โSo do I, but I donโt know any.
James EllroyMy guys are morally weak, and they reach toward a tenuous knowledge of self-sacrifice, and sometimes it's too late. I find that moving. It's not a life I'd want to live. But, then, I'm not completely my books.
James Ellroy"War gives men a plain-and-simple something to do ... Women write diaries in the hope that their words will beckon fate." It's a romantic manifesto.
James EllroyShe quoted a dead playwright and called me a bullet with nothing but a future. She understood my lack of self-pity. She knew why I despised everything that might restrict my forward momentum. She knew that bullets have no conscience. They speed past things and miss their marks as often as they hit them.
James Ellroy