List of Caleb Carr Quotes

Absolutely Nothing Brings Out The Killer Instinct In The Upper Crust Of New York Society Like A Charity Function.

I Was A Pretty Angry Kid, And I Got Into Military History Largely As A Way To Vent My Own Anger. As I Got Older It Narrowed Down To A More Specific Focus On Individual Violence. I'm Just Trying To Understand Where It Came From.

She Has That Quality, Does The Hudson, As I Imagine All Great Rivers Do: The Deep, Abiding Sense That Those Activities What Take Place On Shore Among Human Beings Are Of The Moment, Passing, And Aren't The Stories By Way Of Which The Greater Tale Of This Planet Will, In The End, Be Told.

I, Like Most Of My Friends, Couldn't Believe I Bought A Mountain Called Misery Mountain, Because It Was So Appropriate.

I Have To Be Very Careful, However, Because I Have No Intention Of Providing An Excuse For This Behavior. It's An Attempt To Explain How So Many Women Come From Backgrounds Where The Pressure To Be A Good Mother Is So Severe That If They Can't Do It, Something Really Snaps.

Warfare Against Civilians Must Never Be Answered In Kind. Terror Must Never Be Answered With Terror.

So If It Seems That Some Of What I'll Have To Say In The Pages To Come Doesn't Reflect The Mellowing Of Age, That's Only Because I've Never Found That Life And Memories Respond To Time The Way That Tobacco Does.

I Wanted Nothing Less Than To Be A Fiction Writer When I Was A Kid. If You Had Told Me I Would Be An Artist Or Novelist When I Grew Up, I Would Have Laughed In Your Face

You Want To Believe That There's One Relationship In Life That's Beyond Betrayal. A Relationship That's Beyond That Kind Of Hurt. And There Isn't.

Still, It's An Interesting Technique-leaving One Person Behind In Order To Find Her Or Him Somewhere Else. And In Someone Else.

It Didn’t Make Any More Sense To Me Then Than It Does Now, How Life Can Pile Troubles Up On A Man What Don’t Deserve Them, While Letting Some Of The Biggest Jackasses And Scoundrels Alive Waltz Their Way Through Long, Untroubled Existences.

People Are Disturbed Enough By Serial Killers, But The Whole Notion Of Female Violence, Particularly Maternal Violence - The Idea Of Mothers Who Kill - Really Unnerves People.