The main trouble with being an honest man was that it lost you all your illusions.

- James Jones

He knew how to handle pain. You had to lie down with pain, not draw back away from it. You let yourself sort of move around the outside edge of pain …

- James Jones

The quality which makes man want to write and be read is essentially a desire for self-exposure and masochism. Like one of those guys who has a compu…

- James Jones

That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be.

- James Jones

The little bit you and me might change the world," Malloy smiled, "it wouldnt show up until a hundred years after we were dead. We'd never see it." "…

- James Jones

War don't ennoble men, it turns 'em into dogs. It poisons the soul.

- James Jones

Up until then it had only been himself. Up to then it had been a private wrestle between him and himself. Nobody else much entered into it. After the…

- James Jones

If I never meet you In this life Let me feel the lack A glance from your eyes Then my life Will be yours

- James Jones