Quotes by : Jim Thompson

She wasn't much over five feet and a hundred pounds, and she looked a little scrawny around the neck....

I sat down in a booth, and the waitress shoved a menu in front of me. There wasn’t anything on it that....

You’ve got forever, but that’s no time at all. You’ve got forever; and somehow you can’t do much....

I'd forgotten about it, and now I forgot it again. There are things that have to be forgotten if you....

You go into the office and take a book or two from the shelves. You read a few lines, like your life....

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

Did you ever think much about jobs? I mean, some of the jobs people land in? You see a guy giving haircuts....

The phone rang. Softly, in actuality, yet it seemed loud and ominous, as phones do at night in dark hotel....

Her mind moved around and around the subject, moving with a kind of fuzzy firmness. With no coherent....

The world was a shitpot with a barbed-wire handle and the further he could kick it the better he liked....