Greg Iles Quotes

I don’t really understand the world anymore. But maybe there’s some faint hope that the good people on both sides can come together.

~ Greg Iles

Just because you will not see the work completed does not mean you are free not to take it up.

~ Greg Iles

Albert didn't know how that skinny school teacher could take what Willie gave her. But that was another thing he'd learned over the years, the size of the woman on the outside didn't mean nothing. It was how much hunger she had on the inside that made her what she was between the sheets.

~ Greg Iles

...yet he [Levon] somehow sings with the wounded humanity of a man without a tribe, a man who has known both love and grief and understands that one is the price of the other.

~ Greg Iles

The past is never dead. It's not even past, if it were there would be no grief or sorrow.

~ Greg Iles

Man is the universe becoming conscious of itself.

~ Greg Iles

We do not just belong to this universe, we are it.

~ Greg Iles

Let me tell you a secret, Caitlin. We’re still in the cave. It’s just bigger, and we wear nicer clothes. We make alliances and try to be civil, we save the weak instead of leaving them out in the cold to die. . .

~ Greg Iles

The Terrible Truth is that brutality is part of human nature, and all the laws in the world can't neuter it.

~ Greg Iles

A man's biggest enemy is his mouth.

~ Greg Iles

Like my best friend, I asked for drums for Christmas, and got them. But when he moved on to guitar, I realized two things: (1) guitar is a much more expressive instrument, (2) way more girls pay attention to guitar players than to drummers.

~ Greg Iles

I like taking a character at the most intense moments of their lives and exploring all that in full and then moving on.

~ Greg Iles