Ross Macdonald Quotes

“Nothing wrong with Southern California that a rise in the ocean wouldn't cure.”

“Chandler wrote like a slumming angel and invested the sun-blinded streets of Los Angeles with a romantic presence.”

“No more guns for you.”

“The delicate sensitivity of a frightened rattlesnake.”

“Every witness has his own way of creeping up on the truth.”

“When your income passes a certain point you lose touch. All of a sudden the other people look like geeks or gooks, expendables.”

“The moral beatings that people took from their children, I was thinking, were the hardest to endure and the hardest to escape.”

“An ugly woman with a gun is a terrible thing.”

“I knew how it was with drunks. They ran out of generosity, even for themselves.”

“Money costs too much.”

“Deep feeling sounded in her voice. I had no doubt that the feeling was partly sincere. Still, there was something unreal about it. I suspected that she'd been playing tricks with her emotions for a long time, until none of them was quite valid.”