quotes by Jim Thompson

"Life is a bucket of shit with a barbed wire handle."
— Jim Thompson

"A weed is a plant out of place."
— Jim Thompson (The Killer Inside Me)

"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 Thompson (The Killer Inside Me)

"Then he laughed and she laughed. And quivering with the movement of the train, the dead man seemed to laugh too."
— Jim Thompson (The Getaway)