You go into the office and take a book or two from the shelves. You read a few lines, like your life depended on reading 'em right. But you know your life doesn't depend on anything that makes sense, and you wonder where in the hell you got the idea it did; and you begin to get sore.
Jim ThompsonIf we all had all we wanted to eat, we'd crap too much. We'd have inflation in the toilet paper industry.
Jim ThompsonI 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.
Jim ThompsonDad always said that he had enough trouble sorting the fiction out of so-called facts, without reading fiction. He always said that science was already too muddled without trying to make it jibe with religion. He said those things, but he also said that science itself could be a religion, that a broad mind was always in danger of becoming narrow.
Jim Thompson