“ Florida is full of long-range, unending road jobs that break the backs, pocketbooks, and hearts of the roadside business. The primitive, inefficient, childlike Mexicans somehow manage to survey, engin… John D. MacDonald
“ Hascomb snatched an ancient weapon out of his glove compartment. Officers have smuggled them home from the last five wars. The Colt.45 automatic. John D. MacDonald
“ I do not function too well on emotional motivations. I am wary of them. And I am wary of a lot of other things, such as plastic credit cards, payroll deductions, insurance programs, retirement benefit… John D. MacDonald
“ In all emotional conflicts, the thing you find the most difficult to do, is the thing that you should do."--Meyer's Law John D. MacDonald
“ By noon, in a gray February world, we had come down through snow flurries to land at Albany, and had taken off again. When the snow ended the sky was a luminous gray. I looked down at the winter calli… John D. MacDonald
“ There are people who try to look as if they are doing a good and thorough job, and then there are the people who actually damn well do it, for its own sake. John D. MacDonald
“ People have their acquired armor, made up of gestures and expressions and defensive chatter. John D. MacDonald
“ When you see the ugliness behind the tears of another person, it makes you take a closer look at your own. John D. MacDonald
“ There is something self-destructive about Western technology and distribution. Whenever any consumer object is so excellent that it attracts a devoted following, some of the slide rule and computer ty… John D. MacDonald
“ I worry about everything all day long and half the night. I worry about things you never heard of. John D. MacDonald
“ I thundered hot water into the big tub, setting up McGee's Handy Home Treatment for Melancholy. A deep hot bath, and a strong cold drink, and a book on the tub rack. Who needs the Megrims? Surely not… John D. MacDonald
“ Siesta is sweet when the light is gold, and when the vivid, young face on the pillow looks into yours, beside her, inches away, and smiles the woman-smile older than time, her exhalations warm against… John D. MacDonald
“ Such gratitude! It hurt me to see you lose your professional standing, McGee. Like you were going soft and sentimental. So, through my own account, I put us into Fletcher and rode it up nicely and too… John D. MacDonald
“ I do not like the killers, and the killing bravely and well crap. I do not like the bully boys, the Teddy Roosevelt’s, the Hemingways, the Ruarks. They are merely slightly more sophisticated versions… John D. MacDonald
“ Cathy introduced us. Christine stood there inside her smooth skin, warm and indolent, mildly speculative. John D. MacDonald
“ A woman who does not guard and treasure herself cannot be of very much value to anyone else. John D. MacDonald
