In the Moon of Red Ponies Quotes

“How do you caution a fawn about a cigarette a motorist has just flipped from his car window into a patch of yellow grass, or tell a sparrow that winged creatures eventually plummet to earth?”
― James Lee Burke, In the Moon of Red Ponies

“The men and women who protected them and would one day live in Valhalla required no recompense other than their own self-respect.”
― James Lee Burke, In the Moon of Red Ponies

“SHOULD HAVE SEEN it coming, or at least given more consideration to Darrel McComb’s prediction about Johnny American Horse’s legal fate; but like most people who believe that humankind is basically good and capable of conducting its affairs in a reasonable way, I daily avoided the inescapable conclusion that collective stupidity has often been the norm in the long and sorry history of human progress, and that perhaps the soundest argument for the existence of God is the fact that the human race has survived in spite of itself.”
― James Lee Burke, In the Moon of Red Ponies

“The mystics may have found solace in the meditative life, but I think there are days when memory and solitude are not one’s friend.”
― James Lee Burke, In the Moon of Red Ponies

“They dusted off the electroshock machine, wired me up, and made blue sparks jump off my Johnson. I was definitely in the spirit when they pulled them electrodes of my head, yes sir."
"Electroshock isn't used anymore."
"They said in my case they was making an exception, although they didn't give me no explanation on that. Put me naked in an isolation cell and hosed me down with ice-cold water, too," he said...”
― James Lee Burke, In the Moon of Red Ponies