New York is where it is going to begin, I think. You can see it coming. The insect experts have learned how it works with locusts. Until locust population reaches a certain density, they all act like any grasshoppers. When the critical point is reached, they turn savage and swarm, and try to eat the world. We're nearing a critical point. One day soon two strangers will bump into each other at high noon in the middle of New York. But this time they won't snarl and go on. They will stop and stare and then leap at each others
The only thing in the world worth a damn is the strange, touching, pathetic, awesome nobility of the individual human spirit. - John D. Macdonald
The only thing in the world worth a damn is the strange, touching, pathetic, awesome nobility of the individual human spirit.
- John D. Macdonald
My purpose is to entertain myself first and other people secondly. - John D. Macdonald
My purpose is to entertain myself first and other people secondly.
A nonreader is somebody standing there in a blindfold. - John D. Macdonald
A nonreader is somebody standing there in a blindfold.
[To] me organized religion, the formalities and routines, [is] like being marched in formation to look at a sunset. - John D. Macdonald
[To] me organized religion, the formalities and routines, [is] like being marched in formation to look at a sunset.
Old friend, there are people—young and old—that I like, and people that I do not like. The former are always in short supply. I am turned off by humo… - John D. Macdonald
Old friend, there are people—young and old—that I like, and people that I do not like. The former are always in short supply. I am turned off by humo…
If the cards are stacked against you, reshuffle the deck. - John D. Macdonald
If the cards are stacked against you, reshuffle the deck.
I want story, wit, music, wryness, color, and a sense of reality in what I read, and I try to get it in what I write. - John D. Macdonald
I want story, wit, music, wryness, color, and a sense of reality in what I read, and I try to get it in what I write.
Night and gin and music-the right setting for peeling off the thin clinging layers of bullshit and finding one's way down closer to the essential sel… - John D. Macdonald
Night and gin and music-the right setting for peeling off the thin clinging layers of bullshit and finding one's way down closer to the essential sel…
The dividing line [between friends and acquaintances] is communication, I think. A friend is someone to whom you can say any jackass thing that enter… - John D. Macdonald
The dividing line [between friends and acquaintances] is communication, I think. A friend is someone to whom you can say any jackass thing that enter…
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