James Ellroy

“Closure is a bullshit bourgeois construct.”

“America was never innocent. We popped our cherry on the boat over and looked back with no regrets.”

“I don't have a computer. I have a pen and a paper. And a brain.”

“The key to my work is that I’m a violent conservative.”

“I am the demon dog, the foul owl with the death growl, the white knight of the far right.”

“Obsession is a blade that cuts you. It's the price of greatness. It's the price of everything.”

“My guys are morally compromised. They're not heroes.”

“The past is a source of suspense. It's a mystery. It's a secret.”

“I'm not interested in justice. I'm interested in the truth.”

“My books are about the obsessive quest for a woman.”

“I'm a master of the sentence.”

“I'm trying to write the book that I would want to read.”

“Crime fiction is the literature of our time.”

“I don't think there's anything to be learned from my life. It's a cautionary tale.”

“I'm a romantic. I'm a repressed romantic.”

“Los Angeles is the most corrupt city in the world.”