110 Quotes by Andrew Vachss

You want proof evolution is for real, don’t waste your time with fossils; just check out the New York City rat. They started out as immigrants, stowaways in some ship’s cargo hold. Only the survivors got to breed, and they’ve been improving with every new litter. Smarter, faster, stronger. Getting ready to rule. Manhattan wouldn’t be the first island they took over.

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.

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.

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

It isn’t much use writing slogans on a wall if you plan to total the building.

Be he the first to stand or the last, a man must stand," the father had told his adoring son. "And if there is only one man, then that man must stand alone." ~Thomas to Bruce Wayne

A dog is like a person—he needs a job and a family to be what he’s meant to be.

Cats are the lap-dancers of the animal world. Soon as you stop shelling out, they move on, find another lap. They're furry little sociopaths. Pretty and slick -- in love with themselves. When's the last time you saw a seeing-eye cat?

Life is a fight, but not everyone’s a fighter. Otherwise, bullies would be an endangered species.