When life attains a crisis, manโs focus narrows. [โฆ] The world becomes a stage of immediate concern, swept free of illusion.
Jim ThompsonThen he laughed and she laughed. And quivering with the movement of the train, the dead man seemed to laugh too.
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 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