Andrew Vachss Quotes
- Building a mechanical device for its appearance is like putting lace on a bowling ball.
- Journalism is what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change.
- Victimizers of children are the enemies of any so-called society.
- I don't understand people whose gratification is a BMW. You don't know what joy is until you see a kid who was tortured get adopted…
- Evil is a matter of choice. Those people who have been victimized and refuse to imitate their oppressors are in my mind the greatest heroes…
- Chronic sexual predators [to Vachss, pedophiles] have crossed an osmotic membrane. They can’t step back to the other side - our side. And they don't…
- Family' is not just a biological word, it's an an operative one.
- From the very second that two people sat together around a fire in the forest, there was another human out there who felt better in…
- It isn’t much use writing slogans on a wall if you plan to total the building.
- Roots are nice, but a tree can’t run.
- I don't take advances for my books.
- I'm in pursuit of what cannot be achieved: perfection.
- Information is the hardest currency.
- I believe my publisher has shown a great deal of faith in me over a lot of years but I'm not prepared to be so…
- I don't sign contracts for my books.
- I think people should be consumers of journalism.
- No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist.
- People are pushing against the fabric of society all the time.
- The idea that you're not a writer until you're published is a lie.
- The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape.