The Mexican Tree Duck Quotes

“It wasn’t a party that a Republican could understand--the marijuana smoke sweet on the air, the occasional cocaine sniffle, cold Mexican beer, good food, great conversation, and laughter--but a Parisian deconstructionist scholar might find it about as civilized as America gets. Or at least the one I met, who was visiting at UTEP, maintained. Somewhere along the way, he claimed, Americans had forgotten how to have a good time. In the name of good health, good taste, and political correctness from both sides of the spectrum, we were being taught how to behave. America was becoming a theme park, not as in entertainment, but as in a fascist Disneyland.”
― James Crumley, The Mexican Tree Duck

“I make it a policy never to argue with drug lawyers: they have decent arguments and the best drugs.”
― James Crumley, The Mexican Tree Duck

“I always knew I'd be killed by a cliché.”
― James Crumley, The Mexican Tree Duck