John D. MacDonald Quotes

We were about to give up and call it a night when somebody threw the girl off the bridge.

It's a tricky, complex, indifferent society, Puss. It's a loophole world. And there are a lot of cle...

A woman who does not guard and treasure herself cannot be of very much value to anyone else.

I am wary of the whole dreary deadening structured mess that we have built into such a glittering to...

Friendships like marriages are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.

Vulnerability is the curse of the thinking classes.

It is one thing to look at a mistreated boat and another to look at a tomb. The silence of the bay s...

When you look at pictures of people you know are dead, there is something different about the eyes. ...

In all emotional conflicts, the thing you find the most difficult to do, is the thing that you shoul...

Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is y...

When you see the ugliness behind the tears of another person, it makes you take a closer look at you...

At times it seems as if arranging to have no commitment of any kind to anyone would be a special fre...

Education is something which should be apart from the necessities of earning a living, not a tool th...

Please not yet. Those are the three eternal words. Please not yet.