Andrew Vachss

“Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance.”

“Child abuse casts a shadow the length of a lifetime.”

“Your past is always your past. Even if you forget it, it remembers you.”

“The only real choice is to be a warrior or a victim.”

“The first step on the road to justice is to see clearly, to speak plainly, and to call things by their right names.”

“A scar is a sign of strength...the sign of a survivor.”

“It's not the violence that sets a man apart, it's the distance he's prepared to go.”

“You can get justice in the next world. In this world, you have the law.”

“A predator is a predator. It doesn't matter what clothes it wears.”

“There's no such thing as a vanilla-flavored child. Every one of them is rocky road.”

“Hate is a fire. And when it's burning, it doesn't just hurt the people it's aimed at. It hurts the person who's holding it.”

“Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of this world all things are weighed by the false scale of custom.”

“Every time you compromise, you lose a little bit of your soul.”

“A secret is a secret, and it’s never a secret when you tell.”

“Some people are so afraid of trouble that they live in a cage.”