71 Quotes by Caleb Carr

There are certain things a man cannot control.

The degenerative processes in children have their chief encouragement in the equally defective home surroundings.

The Career and Death of the Mad Thief and Murderer, Samuel Green.

John!” my grandmother blared as Harriet nodded in confusion. “Is that you?” “No, Grandmother,” I said, trotting down the thick Persian carpet on the stairs. “It’s Dr. Holmes.

Well, you just catch me where I go wrong,” I shoot back, “but a Harvard education hasn’t done much to get your little manuscript out to the world.

It isn’t really possible for men to understand how much the world doesn’t want women to be complete people. The most important thing a woman can be, in our society – more important, even, than honest or decent – is identifiable.

I had never been able when there to fully elude the awareness that I was surrounded by thieves and killers, each of whom had a very good explanation for his or her acts but none of whom gave the impression of being willing to put up with questionable behavior from anyone else ever again.

A man can be a bachelor, and still be a man – because of his mind, his character, his work. But a woman without children? She’s a spinster, Stevie – and a spinster is always something less than a woman.

He’s a journalist. They come in two varieties, cynics and liars.