Andrew Vachss

People who don't have much get ugly about giving up the little they have left.

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 the dark.

If love would die along with death, this life wouldn't be so hard.

A couple of buffoons were running for some state-senate seat just vacated by the incumbent's prison term. One accused the other of being "against the Internet" - a knockout punch in a world where whole hordes of humans think better sex is a faster modem.

Family' is not just a biological word, it's an an operative one.

It's the family you choose that counts.

Camouflage doesn't help when the other guy is willing to defoliate the whole jungle.

Fear is an enemy that can be killed only at close range. The closest range of all is intimacy. The deeper the fear is embedded in one__ spirit, the more vulnerable it is.

If a train is coming at you, closing your eyes won't save you ... but if you look right at it, you at least have a chance to jump.

Journalism is what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change.

Ours is a country where anything can be accomplished if enough people get angry... because, in America, we act on our collective anger.

I want to disabuse people of the idea that knowledge is power. Knowing how to get to Detroit is not the same thing as having the bus fare.

There is no Constitutional right to prey on others. The Internet is just a piece of technology, like the telephone. Society has the right to modify its uses.

He said when the Lord made people He made them all the same for starters. But life marks people. If you know the way, you can read them like maps.

The Bowery station on the J line is what happens to a neighborhood once politicians realize the people who live there don__ vote.

The goal of a true family is not that their children follow in their footsteps, but that their children surpass them in all ways.

That__ Manhattan today__ll the money goes up top, while the infrastructure wastes away from neglect. The famous skyline is a cheap trick now, a sleight-of-hand to draw your eye from the truth, as illusory as a bodybuilder with osteoporosis.

The more bullets flying, the less accurate each individual slug has to be.