Andrew Vachss
Andrew Vachss
Andrew Henry Vachssis an American crime fiction author, child protection consultant, and attorney exclusively representing children and youths...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth19 October 1942
CountryUnited States of America
information currency hardest
Information is the hardest currency.
people maps way
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.
you-choose
It's the family you choose that counts.
people lines vote
The Bowery station on the J line is what happens to a neighborhood once politicians realize the people who live there don't vote.
book contracts
I don't sign contracts for my books.
bullying would-be prevention
Life is a fight, but not everyone’s a fighter. Otherwise, bullies would be an endangered species.
attitude years choices
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.
this-life dies hard
If love would die along with death, this life wouldn't be so hard.
sheep ifs asks
Even if sheep could talk, they'd never ask questions.
dog jobs needs
A dog is like a person—he needs a job and a family to be what he’s meant to be.
children love-is emotion
Children know the truth: love is not an emotion, love is behavior.
Family' is not just a biological word, it's an an operative one.
man wanting
I didn't start out angry. I started out a young man wanting adventure.
contest produces trial truth
A trial is not a search for truth. It is a contest and, often, one that produces no winners.