Blue eyes so light that it looked like she sent them out to be bleached

— James Ellroy

Don't make a career out of underestimating me." — Claire de Haven

— James Ellroy

Downtown, a dress for Meg- I do it every time I kill a man.

— James Ellroy

My dad was always snoozing on the couch, like Dagwood Bum stead. He was a lazy motherfucker. God bless him. He was always working on some kind of get-rich-quick scheme. This is what my dad was like: I'd say, Hey, Dad, we studied penguins today in school. He'd say, Yeah? I'm a penguin fucker from way back. Dad, I saw a giraffe at the zoo today. Yeah? I'm a giraffe fucker from way back. That's my dad. My dad was a giraffe fucker.

— James Ellroy

Some of them screamed. Some of them wept. Some of them grinned like LSD was a blast. A case officer said John Stanton hatched the idea - lets flood Cuba with this shit before we invade. Langley co-signed the brainstorm. Langley embellished it: Let's induce mass hallucinations and stage the second coming of Christ!!!! Langley found some suicidal actors. Langley dolled them up to look like J.C. Langley had them set to pre-invade Cuba concurrent with the dope saturation. Peter howled. The case officer said, 'It's not funny.' A drug-torched peon whipped out his Wang and jacked off.

— James Ellroy

There's a kid or some kids somewhere. I'll never know them. They're particle-puzzle-cubing right now. They might be mini-misanthropes from Moose fart, Montana. Furthermore, they might be Demi-dystopians from Dog dick, Delaware. Furthermore, they dig my demonic dramas. The metaphysic maims them. They grasp the gravity. They'll dude it out with their demons. Furthermore, they'll serve a surfeit of survival skills. Furthermore, they won't be chronologically crucified. They'll shore up my shit. Furthermore, they'll radically revise it. Furthermore, they'll pass it along.

— James Ellroy

To me, there's nothing on earth other than women. It's why I get out of bed every morning.

— James Ellroy