Quotes by : Ross Macdonald

It was some time since I had gone to sleep in the same room with a girl. Of course, the room was large....

Some men spend their lives looking for ways to punish themselves for having been born.

You are joking. You must want money. You work for money, don't you?""I want it very badly," I said. "But....

In wine was truth, perhaps, but in whisky, the way Hoffman sluiced it down, was an army of imaginary....

No one looks at the mountains. But they were there, making them all look silly.

I have a secret passion for mercy. But justice is what keeps happening to people.

The walls were lined with books, many of them in foreign languages, like insulation against the immediate....

He was half a politician, and like most of his kind he was an insecure man.

The smell of the sea, of kelp and fish and bitter moving water, rose stronger in my nostrils. It flooded....

Try listening to yourself sometime, alone in a transient room in a strange town. The worst is when you....