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" A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids. "
Home
Kid
Kids
" 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. "
Learn
Children
Born
" A trial is not a search for truth. It is a contest and, often, one that produces no winners. "
Search
Trial
Contest
" Building a mechanical device for its appearance is like putting lace on a bowling ball. "
Mechanical
Like
Appearance
" Fighting means you could lose. Bullying means you can't. A bully wants to beat somebody; he doesn't want to fight somebody. "
Bullying
Lose
He
" 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. "
Great
Work
Failure
" I did criminal defense work part-time, and that paid the bills for representing abused and neglected children... and for defending in juvenile court those kids the 'child protective system' had missed when it had the chance. "
Children
Chance
Child
" I don't sign contracts for my books. "
Sign
Books
Contracts
" I don't take advances for my books. "
Books
Take
Advances
" 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. "
Know
See
Joy
" If I ever stopped being angry, I couldn't write anymore. How could I? "
Write
Anymore
Angry
" I hate bullies. I hate them. I'm not good enough with words to describe how much I hate them. "
Not Good Enough
Words
Much
" I'm in pursuit of what cannot be achieved: perfection. "
Pursuit
Achieved
Cannot
" In some neighborhoods, if you want to walk down the streets, you've got two choices - look down, or look hard. "
Choices
Down
Look
" I think people should be consumers of journalism. "
People
Consumers
Journalism
" I write everything in Courier 12 because I write for publication, not pleasure. "
Pleasure
Write
Because
" Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That's why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a journalist. "
Journalism
Rule
People
" Journalism is what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change. "
Democracy
Journalism
Change
" My life is triage. "
My Life
Life
" No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist. "
Does
Because
Politician
" People are pushing against the fabric of society all the time. "
Against
Fabric
People
" The idea that you're not a writer until you're published is a lie. "
Idea
Lie
Published
" The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape. "
Person
Surveillance
Running
" Victimizers of children are the enemies of any so-called society. "
Enemies
Any
Children
" We don't protect our young, and we tolerate predators of our own species. "
Own
Predators
Young
" While early childhood experiences may impel, they do not compel. In the end, evil is a matter of choice. "
Childhood
Evil
Choice
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