James Ellroy

Anybody who doesn't know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose.

Raymond Chandler once wrote that Dashiell Hammett gave murder back to the people who really committed it.

I am a writer. I could not afford to take 15 months off from my writing career to play detective.

Yes, there are lots of individual exceptions. But no one has ever done a study about voting intention without ascertaining that the biggest determining factor is your income and your wealth.

I have no hatred for cops. I have hatred for racists and brutal people, but not necessarily the cops. The cops are just doing what they're told to do.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.