Quote

Stealing to eat ain’t criminal—stealing to be rich is.

Andrew Vachss

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Andrew Vachss
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: October 19
Author
Lawyer
Novelist
Poet Lawyer
Writer
New York City
New York
Andrew Henry Vachss
Criminal
Stealing
Greed
Criminals
Rich

More quotes by Andrew Vachss

Image
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.
Andrew Vachss
Image
The worst place to be is in the middle. When elephants fight, the grass gets trampled.
Andrew Vachss
Image
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.
Andrew Vachss
Image
Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That's why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a journalist.
Andrew Vachss
Image
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.
Andrew Vachss
Image
Journalism is what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change.
Andrew Vachss
Image
If love would die along with death, this life wouldn't be so hard.
Andrew Vachss
Image
Evil is a matter of choice. Those people who have been victimized and refuse to imitate their oppressors are in my mind the greatest heroes we have.
Andrew Vachss
Image
A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids.
Andrew Vachss
Image
Building a mechanical device for its appearance is like putting lace on a bowling ball.
Andrew Vachss
Image
Cats are the lap-dancers of the animal world. Soon as you stop shelling out, they move on, find another lap. They're furry little sociopaths. Pretty and slick -- in love with themselves. When's the last time you saw a seeing-eye cat?
Andrew Vachss
Image
The Bowery station on the J line is what happens to a neighborhood once politicians realize the people who live there don't vote.
Andrew Vachss
Image
A dog is like a person—he needs a job and a family to be what he’s meant to be.
Andrew Vachss
Image
Be he the first to stand or the last, a man must stand, the father had told his adoring son. And if there is only one man, then that man must stand alone. ~Thomas to Bruce Wayne
Andrew Vachss
Image
No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist.
Andrew Vachss
Image
I don't take advances for my books.
Andrew Vachss
Image
The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape.
Andrew Vachss
Image
Roots are nice, but a tree can’t run.
Andrew Vachss
Image
Max Allan Collins blends fact and fiction like no other writer.
Andrew Vachss
Image
Family' is not just a biological word, it's an an operative one.
Andrew Vachss