John D. MacDonald, The Deep Blue Good-By

"A woman who does not guard and treasure herself cannot be of very much value to anyone else."

John D. MacDonald, The Deep Blue Good-By

"I am wary of the whole dreary deadening structured mess that we have built into such a glittering top-heavy structure that there is nothing left to see but the glitter, and the brute routines of maintaining it."

John D. MacDonald, The Deep Blue Good-By