Quotes by James Carlos Blake

“Sex and violence ... are the two great engines of the world.”

“Aspiring novelists should be taught that the old adage, Write about what you know, isnt limited to what you have personally experienced. Vicarious experience is also a great part of what you know. ...”

“Pride has traditionally been regarded as the foremost of the Seven Deadly Sins, but it has rather obviously been overtaken by Greed.”

“Men tend to remember the best things about the women they've loved and to forget the worst, which is why so many men make the same mistakes with women again and again. Women tend to forget the best...”

“One of the greatest of human follies is that we think we know ourselves so well, that we know how we would act under any conditions, that we would under any circumstance 'do the right thing.' Well,...”

“We don't permit anyone to tell us our business, nor do we wish to tell anyone his. The same goes for moral outlooks. Don't tread on us and we won't on you. We're a tolerant, liberty-loving bunch, w...”

“Every single time it was grand. I loved the moment when you announce the stickup and everything suddenly goes brighter and sharper and the world seems to spin faster. You show them the gun and say ...”

“There's an old saying," Buck said. "A hundred things can go wrong in a holdup, and if you can think of fifty of them you're a damn genius.”

“The notion that we've made vast moral progress and are now a less violent species is belied by our awesome powers of destruction, our military might, police forces as well-armed as soldiers. Withou...”

“The only things you can ever truly own cannot be bought with money.”

“Some of us are always in the borderlands no matter where we might be on the map.”

“History is a record of human nature in action.”

“He would know a number of grown women in his life who did not possess even a small portion of the grace his middle sister owned at the age of fourteen.”

“He finally comprehended that the sole impossibility regarding human sorrow is to arrive at some unsurpassable limit to it.”

“You do not tell people to go fuck themselves and then later when you're in trouble ask them to help you.”

“When you make a deal you stick to it. Rock-hard rule. You don't renege, you don't sell out. You hold up your end and expect the other party to do the same. If the other party doesn't, you're entitl...”

“The greatest tragedy that can befall a man is never to know who he really is.”

“If the devil ever raised a garden, the Everglades was it.”

“A man who can laugh at himself is truly blessed, for he will never lack for amusement.”

“I mean to tell you, the Law's notion of justice is more cold-blooded than any outlaw I ever knew. And I mean 'outlaw,' not criminal. 'Criminal' doesn't distinguish between guys like men and the guy...”