Journalism is what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change.
All children are born pure egoists. They perceive their needs to the exclusion of all others. Only through socialization do they learn that some forms of gratification must be deferred and others denied.
Fighting means you could lose. Bullying means you can't. A bully wants to beat somebody; he doesn't want to fight somebody.
Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That's why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a journalist.
No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist.
I don't understand people whose gratification is a BMW. You don't know what joy is until you see a kid who was tortured get adopted by a family.
My life is triage.
A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids.
There is no Constitutional right to prey on others. The Internet is just a piece of technology, like the telephone. Society has the right to modify its uses.
Crime takes the pulse of a culture. It tells us the truth about us as a species.
I don't take advances for my books.
I don't sign contracts for my books.
I think people should be consumers of journalism.
I'm in pursuit of what cannot be achieved: perfection.
People are pushing against the fabric of society all the time.
The idea that you're not a writer until you're published is a lie.
Building a mechanical device for its appearance is like putting lace on a bowling ball.
The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape.
We don't protect our young, and we tolerate predators of our own species.
Victimizers of children are the enemies of any so-called society.
