If I had to marry someone, it wouldn't be a bossy little gal with a tongue like barbed-wire and a mind about as narrow. - Jim Thompson

There are thirty-two ways to write a story, and I've used every one, but there is only one plot—things are not as they seem.

There was too much of a sameness about the evening’s delights. He had been the same route too many times. He’d been there before, so double-damned often, and however you traveled—backward, forward, or walking on your hands—you always got to the same place. You got nowhere, in other words, and each trip took a little more out of you.

I found out long ago that the place where the law is apt to be abused the most is right around a courthouse.