Quotes by : Ross Macdonald

Never sleep with anyone whose troubles are worse than your own.

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....

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.

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

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

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

I found myself wishing that we could live like the birds and move through nature without hurting it ourselves.....