Data is what distinguishes the dilettante from the artist.
– George V. Higgins
Egotism: The art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.
– George V. Higgins
Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.
– George V. Higgins
Rental formal wear of the sky-blue, brocade and shiny varieties is favored by upwardly mobile young gangsters drafted as groomsmen for weddings.
– George V. Higgins
She had rouged her cheeks to a color otherwise seen only on specially ordered Pontiac Firebirds, and in her ears she wore two feathered appliances resembling surfcasting jigs especially appetizing to striped bass.
– George V. Higgins
The received image of a writer is that of an unproductive sensitive who suffers from the vapors, is enslaved by his gonads, falls victim to romantic swoons and passes out at deadlines.
– George V. Higgins
Writing is the only trade I know of in which sniveling confessions of extreme incompetence are taken as credentials probative of powers to astound the multitude.