Cadillac Jack Quotes

“I make my share of mistakes, but one I never make is to underestimate the power of things. People imbued from childhood with the myth of the primacy of feeling seldom like to admit they really want things as much as they might want love, but my career has convinced me that plenty of them do. And some want things a lot worse than they want love.”
― Larry McMurtry, Cadillac Jack

“I don’t believe in protein,” I said. “I think it’s a myth, like vitamins. I don’t believe in nutrition, in fact. I think it’s all a myth.”
― Larry McMurtry, Cadillac Jack

“It feels silly to kiss a smile. At best you just sort of bump teeth.”
― Larry McMurtry, Cadillac Jack

“aware that I was in deep trouble in Austin—the kind of trouble that occurs when you keep talking to a lazy woman you have divorced, thus encouraging her not to bother building a new life.”
― Larry McMurtry, Cadillac Jack: A Novel

“dipsomaniacal”
― Larry McMurtry, Cadillac Jack: A Novel