Andrew Vachss Quotes - Page 2

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

A moral society will not set standards for becoming a parent, but it will establish irreducible minimums for maintaining that sacred status.

No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist.

I don't understand people whose gratification is a BMW. You don't know what joy is until you see a kid who was tortured get adopted by a family.

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.

The Humane Society of America thinks Michael Vick should have a dog. I think whoever's in charge there should have a lobotomy.

Max Allan Collins blends fact and fiction like no other writer.

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

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

Two rules: You enter without breaking. And you remember that nobody misses what you don't take.

Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That's why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a journalist.

I don't sign contracts for my books.

I believe my publisher has shown a great deal of faith in me over a lot of years but I'm not prepared to be so arrogant to say that the long-term literary value of my work would compensate them for a financial failure.

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

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

I don't take advances for my books.

I'm in pursuit of what cannot be achieved: perfection.

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.

The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape.

People are pushing against the fabric of society all the time.

Building a mechanical device for its appearance is like putting lace on a bowling ball.

I think people should be consumers of journalism.