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17 quotes by Ross MacDonald

David Ross MacDonald (born January 27, 1965 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) is a Canadian sailor. He began sailing at the age of 11. He won a silver medal with Mike Wolfs at the 2004 Summer Olympics in the men's Star event, and a bronze with Eric Jespersen at the 1992 Summer Olympics in the same event.
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We writers, as we work our way deeper into our craft, learn to drop more and more personal clues. Like burglars who secretly wish to be caught, we... →

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As a man gets older, if he knows what is good for him, the women he likes are getting older too. The trouble is that most of them are married.

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Money costs too much.

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Hell lies at the bottom of the human heart.

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As I stood there absorbing Hammett's novel, the slot machines at the back of the shop were clanking and whirring, and in the billiard room... →

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I wanted to write as well as I possibly could to deal with life-and-death problems in contemporary society. And the form of Wilkie Collins and Graham... →

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An ugly woman with an ugly gun is a terrible thing.

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

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Freud was one of the greatest influences on me. He made myth into psychiatry, and I've been trying to turn it back into myth again.

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How can a man help breaking the law when he don't have money to live on?

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I had reached the point when I could not see anything clearly ahead, I needed help, and I got it.

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My half-suppressed Canadian years, my whole childhood and youth, rose like a corpse from the bottom of the sea to confront me.

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Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.

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