Classical music fulfills for me the function of narrative. I spend 90 minutes a day listening to symphonic music - Beethoven to Bartók - some chamber pieces, and that's my enrichment.
L.A.: Come on vacation, go home on probation. - James Ellroy
L.A.: Come on vacation, go home on probation.
- James Ellroy
I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime. - James Ellroy
I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime.
Closure is a preposterous concept worthy of the worst aspects of American daytime TV. - James Ellroy
Closure is a preposterous concept worthy of the worst aspects of American daytime TV.
The lunatic populism that preceded the Pearl Harbor bombing is astonishing in its permutations, its crisscrossings. Guys like [Catholic priest and co… - James Ellroy
The lunatic populism that preceded the Pearl Harbor bombing is astonishing in its permutations, its crisscrossings. Guys like [Catholic priest and co…
Dead people belong to the live people who claim them most obsessively. - James Ellroy
Dead people belong to the live people who claim them most obsessively.
I always cringe when a male friend of mine, who's very fixated on women, puts "compatibility" at the top of his list of attributes that he would be l… - James Ellroy
I always cringe when a male friend of mine, who's very fixated on women, puts "compatibility" at the top of his list of attributes that he would be l…
How did I change my life? I wanted things. I wanted women and I wanted to write books. - James Ellroy
How did I change my life? I wanted things. I wanted women and I wanted to write books.
I learn things late-and only the hard way. - James Ellroy
I learn things late-and only the hard way.
Some people don’t respond to civility. - James Ellroy
Some people don’t respond to civility.
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