Andrew Vachss
Roots are nice, but a tree can’t run.Collection: Running
Fear is an enemy that can be killed only at close range. The closest range of all is intimacy. The deeper the fear is embedded in one’s spirit, the more vulnerable it is.Collection: Enemy
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.Collection: People
The Bowery station on the J line is what happens to a neighborhood once politicians realize the people who live there don't vote.Collection: People
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.Collection: Dark
The more bullets flying, the less accurate each individual slug has to be.Collection: Flying
A moral society will not set standards for becoming a parent, but it will establish irreducible minimums for maintaining that sacred status.Collection: Parent
Max Allan Collins blends fact and fiction like no other writer.Collection: Max
The Humane Society of America thinks Michael Vick should have a dog. I think whoever's in charge there should have a lobotomy.Collection: Dog
Camouflage doesn't help when the other guy is willing to defoliate the whole jungle.Collection: Guy
People who don't have much get ugly about giving up the little they have left.Collection: Giving Up
Two rules: You enter without breaking. And you remember that nobody misses what you don't take.Collection: Two
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.Collection: Ideas
A free press doesn't mean it's not a tame press.Collection: Mean
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.Collection: Mean
It isn’t much use writing slogans on a wall if you plan to total the building.Collection: Wall