Ross Macdonald Quotes

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

He was half a politician, and like most of his kind he was an insecure man.

If California is a state of mind, Hollywood is where you take its temperature. There is a peculiar sense in which this city existing mainly on film and tape is our national capital, alas, and not just the capital of California. It's the place where our children learn how and what to dream and where everything happens just before, or just after, it happens to us.

No one looks at the mountains. But they were there, making them all look silly.

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.