Caleb Carr

“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.”

“The solution to any problem lies in asking the right questions.”

“Madness, like small-pox, is a contagion.”

“We are none of us what we seem.”

“It has been said that the historian is the avenging angel of the present.”

“The defenders of decent society and the disciples of degeneracy are often the same people.”

“Most of us are not what we would like to be, what we are good at being, or what we are paid for being, but what we are made to be.”

“Never, ever, underestimate the importance of luck.”

“Men, my dear, are not the architects of their own dispositions.”

“Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.”

“Every human being, Kreizler, has a darkness within him, however hidden.”

“The insane have no memory. They have only delusions.”

“Terrorism is the contemporary name for warfare by the weak.”

“Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them... life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”

“You will have to go to the very bottom of his suffering and follow it to its source, you will have to go with him.”