Patricia Highsmith Quotes

I like to drink when I travel. It enhances things, don’t you think?

Obsessions are the only things that matter.

He could feel the belligerence growing in Freddie Miles as surely as if his huge body were generating a heat that he could feel across the room.

Her life was a series of zigzags. At nineteen, she was anxious.

My story can move fast, as I can't, it can have a reasonable and perhaps perfect solution, as mine can't. A solution that is somehow satisfying, as my personal solution never can be.

I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.

Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother.

Carol looked at her. "How do you become a poet?""By feeling things - too much, I suppose, " Therese answered conscientiously.