Jorn Barger

“Taggert was thirty dollars’ worth of organic chemicals shaped like a man.”
― Ross Mcdonald

“Hospitals are nightmares in white.”
― Clive Cussler, Night Probe!

“She put her hands over her ears and made a monkey face. Even then, she couldn't look ugly. She had such good bones, her skeleton would have been an ornament in any closet.”
― Ross Macdonald, The Doomsters

“The tea tasted like a clear dark dripping from the past. My grandmother came back with it, in crisp black funeral silks,”
― Ross Macdonald, The Way Some People Die