John D. MacDonald People Quotations

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 humorless fanaticism, whether it's revolutionary mumbo-jumbo by a young one, or loud lessons from scripture by and old one. We are all comical, touching, slapstick animals, walking on our hind legs, trying to make it a noble journey from womb to tomb, and the people who can't see it all that way bore hell out of me.

People cannot endure inexplicable worthlessness

You have to start knowing yourself so well that you begin to know other people. A piece of us is in every person we can ever meet.

My purpose is to entertain myself first and other people secondly.