Quotes from Ed Gorman

There's a special quality to the loneliness of dusk, a melancholy more brooding even than the night's.

David Goodis didn't write novels, he wrote suicide notes.

I'm gonna put that gun as far up his ass as it'll go, then I'm just gonna keep loadin' and reloadin' till my arms get tired.

Even if it all ultimately means nothing, you've got to play the game not only for yourself but for the people you love.

Maybe life didn't make sense but then it was our business, I guess, to impose meaning on it.

humor somehow comes through thanks to a gifted translator. Gianrico

Kiss Me Deadly by Mickey Spillane

because no matter how we try to explain it—through religion or randomness, it doesn't matter—existence just doesn't seem to make any sense.

I had a philosophy instructor at the U of I say that the only question that mattered in all of philosophy was Verlaine's "Why are we born to suffer and die?

The Catholic thing. They've got you so tight inside you need an enema. No cheating on the wife, no cheating on the taxes, no cheating on the church. And somebody bends the rules a little, your panties get all bunched up.

Meanwhile, I have the cats, and, worst of all, I've started to consider them family. I know guys aren't supposed to like cats (out here, you still occasionally find the stout masculine type who goes out and shoots cats), but I can't help it. They've won me over.

I guess I had, too, this melancholy, and somehow Buddy Holly dying at least gave me a tangible reason for this feeling. Maybe it's just all the sadness I see in the people around me, just below the surface I mean, and the fact that there's nothing I can do about it. Life is like that sometimes.