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

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

- 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

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

- 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

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