If the Good Lord made a mistake in us people it was in making us want to live when we’ve got the least excuse for it.
Jim ThompsonI found out long ago that the place where the law is apt to be abused the most is right around a courthouse.
Jim ThompsonWe're living in a funny world kid, a peculiar civilization. The police are playing crooks in it, and the crooks are doing police duty. The politicians are preachers, and the preachers are politicians. The tax collectors collect for themselves. The Bad People want us to have more dough, and the good people are fighting to keep it from us. It's not good for us, know what I mean? If we had all we wanted to eat, we'd eat too much. We'd have inflation in the toilet paper industry. That's the way I understand it. That's about the size of some of the arguments I've heard.
Jim Thompson