“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” ThinkingWorldTryingTwoCertainTurnsMiddleNew YorkGoes OnOne DayPopulationStrangerCriticalStaringExpertsLeapSavagesInsectsNoonBumpsDensitySwarmsGrasshoppers Author: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.” WantWritingTryingStoriesRealityColorWit Author: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 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.” PeopleWayTryingYoungAnimalHellJourneyWalkingLessonsLegsNobleScriptureFormerLoudRevolutionaryTouchingBoresWombFanaticismTombsOld FriendsComicalYoung And OldTurned OffYoung OnesSlapstick Author:John D. MacDonald
“It's no good telling somebody they're trying too hard. It's very much like ordering a child to go stand in a corner for a half hour and never once think about elephants.” ThinkingTryingChildrenHardHoursHalfCornersElephantsHalf HoursTrying Too Hard Author:John D. MacDonald
