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.

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

Flames entered the room like dancers, orange-colored and whirring.

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.

On both sides of the highway I could see the rows of little frame houses, all alike, as if there were....

She didn't look like any motel manager I had ever seen. More likely an actress who hadn't quite made....

If California is a state of mind, Hollywood is where you take its temperature. There is a peculiar sense....

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