Ross Macdonald said this quote

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.

~ Ross Macdonald

The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters.

~ Ross Macdonald

The walls were lined with books, many of them in foreign languages, like insulation against the immediate present.

~ Ross Macdonald

I found myself wishing that we could live like the birds and move through nature without hurting it ourselves.

~ Ross Macdonald