James Ellroy My Dark Places Quotes

#1. My first meeting with you only confirmed what I first suspected. You are a fraud, a charlatan and a shyster. My favourite kind of person, in fact.

Stephen Fry

#2. great intelligence in a writer if his similes

Arthur Schopenhauer

#3. You know," he said, "it amazes me sometimes that we even try. With everything they've done to us - the deaths, the tortures, the agonies - you'd think that we would just give up on things like hope and love. But we don't.

Brandon Sanderson

#4. All I can do is advocate changes at the BBC while respecting editorial independence upon which the success of the BBC rests. I can't do anything that requires the BBC to pay certain people certain amounts.

Jeremy Hunt

#5. Happiness is a simple everyday miracle, like water, and we are not aware of it.

Nikos Kazantzakis

#6. I told my cellmates about the oppression of the whites and apartheid. I helped organize hunger strikes and the like in my prison.

Nelson Mandela

#7. Love defines a peaceful world.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#8. I'm glad to know you have a sense of humor." "I'm a vampire, not a zombie." "Good to know.

Chloe Neill

#9. The world is divided into two categories of people: those who shit in drinking water and those who don't.

Joseph Jenkins

#10. Some of the greatest masterpieces of art are created against the odds of reality.

from the book: stuff i think about

Sondra Faye