91 Quotes by Jim Thompson

I found out long ago that the place where the law is apt to be abused the most is right around a courthouse.

There are things that have to be forgotten if you want to go on living.

Then he laughed and she laughed. And quivering with the movement of the train, the dead man seemed to laugh too.

You’ve got forever; and somehow you can’t do much with it. You’ve got forever; and it’s a mile wide and an inch deep and full of alligators.

It doesn’t matter what answers you get if you ask the wrong questions.

A weed is a plant out of place.’ Let me repeat that. A weed is a plant out of place.’ I find a hollyhock in my cornfield, and it’s a weed. I find it in my yard, and it’s a flower.

I ain’t saying you’re a liar, because that wouldn’t be polite. But I’ll tell you this, ma’am. If I loved liars, I’d hug you to death.

I kissed her, a long hard kiss. Because baby didn’t know it, but baby was dead, and in a way I couldn’t have loved her more.

I told her the world was full of nice people. I’d have hated to try to prove it to her, but I said it, anyway.