Britton

“When power corrupts, it keeps a log of its progress, written into that most sensitive memory device, the human face. Who could withstand the light? What viewer could believe in the war, the system, the countless lies about American freedom, looking into these mug shots of the bought and sold? Hearing the synchronized voices repeat the same formulas, evasive, affectless, cut off from whatever they had once been by promises of what they would never get to collect on?”
― Thomas Pynchon, Vineland

“Carlos used people and made sure they knew the rules. Carlos knew he would pay for his life with eternal damnation.”
― James Ellroy, American Tabloid

“We’re not one thing. We’re people. The worst of us has good in him. The best of us has pure fucking evil in his heart. We battle. It’s all we can do.”
― Dennis Lehane, Small Mercies

“Narrative was my moral language.”
― James Ellroy, My Dark Places