110 Quotes by Andrew Vachss

The Bowery station on the J line is what happens to a neighborhood once politicians realize the people who live there don’t vote.

That’s Manhattan today—all 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.

Most investigators don't even know what the word means. You stop the cops from using informants and the only crimes they'd ever solve would be those by deranged postal workers who come to work once too often.

A free press doesn't mean it's not a tame press.

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

The worst place to be is in the middle. When elephants fight, the grass gets trampled.

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

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 maltreated child cries 'I hurt.' Unheard or unheeded, that cry becomes prophecy.