Where is Janice Gantry? Quotes

“Somebody has to be tireless or the fast buck operators would asphalt the entire coast, fill every bay and slay every living thing incapable of carrying a wallet.”
― John D. MacDonald, Where is Janice Gantry?

“all the time she was acting like an actress on a Mike Wallace interview, the tears kept running right down her face. I couldn’t even tell if she knew she was crying, Sam. And she kept the act going right up until the time when I left the house. Something is cracking up, Sam. Something is going all to hell, and fast. They seem to be”
― John D. MacDonald, Where is Janice Gantry?

“boy. I have a shallow, pyrotechnic, unchanging brilliance with which I awe the peasants, but there is no solidity, no basic texture, hence no capacity for creative growth.”
― John D. MacDonald, Where is Janice Gantry?

“Somebody has to be tireless, my boy, or the fast buck operators would asphalt the entire coast, fill every bay and slay every living thing incapable of carrying a wallet. And with my left hand I strike the occasional blow of culture.”
― John D. MacDonald, Where is Janice Gantry?