Honestly, I don't understand why people get so worked up about a little murder!

- Patricia Highsmith

Every man is his own law court and punishes himself enough.

- Patricia Highsmith

Perhaps it was freedom itself that choked her.

- Patricia Highsmith

For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not.

- Patricia Highsmith

Honesty, for me, is usually the worst policy imaginable.

- Patricia Highsmith

And no book, and possibly no painting, when it is finished, is ever exactly like the first dream of it.

- Patricia Highsmith

I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek out writers because we all want to be alone.

- Patricia Highsmith

Life is a long failure of understanding ... a long, mistaken shutting of the heart.

- Patricia Highsmith

Everything human is alien to me.

- Patricia Highsmith