A moral society will not set standards for becoming a parent, but it will establish irreducible minimums for maintaining that sacred status.

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.

The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape.

Victimizers of children are the enemies of any so-called society.

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.

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.

No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist.