110 Quotes by Andrew Vachss

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 want to. If we don't kill them or release them, we have but one choice. Call them monsters and isolate them.... I’ve spoken to many predators over the years. They always exhibit amazement that we do not hunt them. And that when we capture them, we eventually let them go. Our attitude is a deliberate interference with Darwinism - an endangerment of our species.

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

Even if sheep could talk, they'd never ask questions.

Children know the truth: love is not an emotion, love is behavior.

Courier 12 is the Type-O blood of fonts - works just as good for a 'N.Y. Times' op-ed as a screenplay or a short story.

The idea that you are a writer because you're published is also a lie.

It’s the family you choose that counts.

The maltreated child cries ‘I hurt.’ Unheard or unheeded, that cry becomes prophecy.

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