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.
From Andrew Vachss
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 what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change.
Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That's why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a journalist.
Courier 12 is the Type-O blood of fonts - works just as good for a 'N.Y. Times' op-ed as a screenplay or a short story.
In some neighborhoods, if you want to walk down the streets, you've got two choices - look down, or look hard.
Building a mechanical device for its appearance is like putting lace on a bowling ball.
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.
I hate bullies. I hate them. I'm not good enough with words to describe how much I hate them.
We don't protect our young, and we tolerate predators of our own species.
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