Quotes by : John D. MacDonald

We were about to give up and call it a night when somebody threw the girl off the bridge.

Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your....

It is one thing to look at a mistreated boat and another to look at a tomb. The silence of the bay seemed....

At times it seems as if arranging to have no commitment of any kind to anyone would be a special freedom.....

Please not yet. Those are the three eternal words. Please not yet.

I am wary of the whole dreary deadening structured mess that we have built into such a glittering top-heavy....

When you look at pictures of people you know are dead, there is something different about the eyes. As....

In all emotional conflicts, the thing you find the most difficult to do, is the thing that you should....

It's a tricky, complex, indifferent society, Puss. It's a loophole world. And there are a lot of clever....

Education is something which should be apart from the necessities of earning a living, not a tool therefor.....