The Hilliker Curse Quotes

“I learn things late–and only the hard way.”
― James Ellroy, The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women: A Memoir

“I didn't care who we were. I required no consummation. I knew that whoever we were and whatever we had would never stop.”
― James Ellroy, The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women: A Memoir

“I am best served in my life’s goals if I lay in the dark, brood, sleep, listen to classical music, spend time with my few friends, and chase women. That’s what I do. I chase women. I spend time with my few friends. I brood. I sleep. I earn money, and I work.”
― James Ellroy, The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women: A Memoir

“I learn things late—and only the hard way.”
― James Ellroy, The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women

“There’s a world we can’t see. It exists separately and concurrently with the real world. You enter this world by the offering of prayer and incantation. You live in this world wholly within your mind. You dispel the real world through mental discipline. You rebuff the real world through your enforced mental will. Your interior world will give you what you want and what you need to survive.”
― James Ellroy, The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women

“I had to talk to people. All people scared me.”
― James Ellroy, The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women: A Memoir