Ross MacDonald Quotes
30 quotes • Bassist • Age 37
"The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters."
"There was nothing wrong with Southern California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure."
"Chandler wrote like a slumming angel and invested the sun-blinded streets of Los Angeles with a romantic presence."
"She was trouble looking for somebody to happen to."
"The past was filling the room like a tide of whispers."
"He had pink butterfly ears. The rest of him was still in the larval stage."
"Some men spend their lives looking for ways to punish themselves for having been born."
"I have a secret passion for mercy. But justice is what keeps happening to people."
"People are trying so hard to live through their children. And the children keep trying so hard to live up to their parents, or live them down. Everybody's living through or for or against somebody else. It doesn't make too much sense, and it isn't working too well."
"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."
"No one looks at the mountains. But they were there, making them all look silly."
"Never sleep with anyone whose troubles are worse than your own."