Quote by Ross Macdonald

Money costs too much.

— Ross MacDonald

“The sea was surging among the pilings like the blithe mindless forces of dissolution.”

— Ross Macdonald

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

— Ross MacDonald

“She didn't look like any motel manager I had ever seen. More likely an actress who hadn't quite made the grade down south, or…

— Ross Macdonald

“In wine was truth, perhaps, but in whisky, the way Hoffman sluiced it down, was an army of imaginary rats climbing your legs.”

— Ross Macdonald

“...a thin woman about fifty with a face like a silver hatchet.”

— Ross Macdonald

“A cockroach stepped out from behind the ketchup, gave me a quick impassive once-over, decided that I was of the Brahmin faith, and walked…

— Ross Macdonald

“No more guns for you.”

— Ross Macdonald

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

— Ross Macdonald

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

— Ross Macdonald

An ugly woman with a gun is a terrible thing.

— Ross Macdonald

I like a little danger. Tame danger, controlled by me. It gives me a sense of power, I guess, to take my life in…

— Ross Macdonald