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
bills chance court criminal defending defense juvenile kids missed neglected paid protective work
I did criminal defense work part-time, and that paid the bills for representing abused and neglected children... and for defending in juvenile court those kids the 'child protective system' had missed when it had the chance.
contest produces trial truth
A trial is not a search for truth. It is a contest and, often, one that produces no winners.
man wanting
I didn't start out angry. I started out a young man wanting adventure.
sheep ifs asks
Even if sheep could talk, they'd never ask questions.
this-life dies hard
If love would die along with death, this life wouldn't be so hard.
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.
bullying would-be prevention
Life is a fight, but not everyone’s a fighter. Otherwise, bullies would be an endangered species.
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.
you-choose
It's the family you choose that counts.
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.
information currency hardest
Information is the hardest currency.
flying slugs bullets
The more bullets flying, the less accurate each individual slug has to be.
democracy journalism progressive
Journalism is what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change.
enemy spirit vulnerable
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.