Perfidia Quotes

#1. I don't have a cellphone or a computer. I deliberately circumscribe my mental life within the periods that I write about, and the power of Perfidia is that it's the result of complete immersion. I was there for the two years that it took me to write that book.

James Ellroy

#2. Periodically I just notch up. And everyone among my colleagues thinks that Perfidia - in its accessibility, its big throbbing heart - will be the biggest notch up yet. We'll see what happens. It's on my ass.

James Ellroy

#3. Life does not hurt nearly as much if we have learned to listen to ourselves and to recognize how fully and richly we are trying to tell ourselves the truth.

Eugene Kennedy

#4. Uncertainty makes people anxious, and distraction is the twenty-first century opiate of the masses.

Meg Jay

#5. Can we imagine a different world? I can. That's a world where work is rational, it's in the common good, and we're actually producing real things rather than spinning our wheels in dreams of consumer heaven.

Bill Ayers

#6. This whole time, I wasn't waiting for something in particular.
Just someone who wanted me.
Not sex.
But me.

Diana Peterfreund

#7. It was like there was some parallel universe we all vanished off to where we had all this sex.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#8. Clark Gable seemed fascinating all his life because there wasn't so much information about him. Today, you're on television all the time.

A. Scott Berg

#9. Well, robots are, of course, the monkey's natural enemy.

Brian K. Vaughan

#10. I think the best advice came from Drew Barrymore, about always finding love in everything you do and keeping a positive attitude and being thankful.

Bella Thorne

#11. Pride myself on the fact that my work has no socially redeeming value.

John Waters

#12. Silly of me not to have realized it. One often finds Greek temples lurking in the woods of English estates. Sneaky things, temples.

Victoria Alexander

#13. I got out of college and I went to get my master's in creative writing at San Francisco State. I was working as an actor at the Actor's Workshop, being abused as a intern.

Peter Coyote

#14. There's a great difference between being popular and being an artist.

Shirley Knight

#15. The driver drove by roadway Braille

James Ellroy

#16. Today our youth is preoccupied with being rich and famous but is truly missing something. Sadly ... even money won't last if you're not educated. Knowledge Is Everything!

Timothy Pina

#17. She's good to common folk. They make her feel authentic. She covets their approval in small doses.

James Ellroy

#18. Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. The scales are balanced so nicely that a feather would turn them.

Thomas Hardy