124 Quotes by Ross Macdonald

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 present.

You are joking. You must want money. You work for money, don't you?""I want it very badly," I said. "But I can't take this money. It wouldn't belong to me, I would belong to it. It would expect me to do things, and I would have to do them. Sit on the lid of this mess of yours, the way Marfeld did, until dry rot sets in.

It was some time since I had gone to sleep in the same room with a girl. Of course, the room was large and reasonably well-lighted, and the girl had other things than me on her mind.

She looked up at the sun as if it were spying on her.

No more guns for you.

I like a little danger. Tame danger, controlled by me. It gives me a sense of power, I guess, to take my life in my hands and know damn well I’m not going to lose it.

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

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