Quotes by Caleb Carr

“Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses”

“Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways”

“There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that lost by not trying.”

“Gideon is unaware of it; hes grown up in it, and accepts the shortcomings until -- its sort of a typical Everyman situation -- you accept the shortcomings until you get shoved up against an uncomfortable wall by them and have to look at them. And thats what happens to him. Its not a voluntary process,”

“Im still a firm believer that we were definitely put here to use our minds, and that is what makes us different. And that thats the key. If there is anything that is going to stop mankind from being such a beastly, destructive creature, it is reason.”

“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.”

“[Some question the value of accounts that have been quickly turned around.] Memoirs in general arent of any quality or use until enough time has passed that somebody can put some perspective on what they went through, ... Theres no way to give this war a chance to mean anything because were judging it so quickly.”

“He was just trying to breathe.”

“In rooting around for something to grab onto, I latched onto the past and people in the past who I felt were strong, actively ethical characters.”

“Warfare against civilians must never be answered in kind. Terror must never be answered with terror.”

“I feel horribly vindicated. Three thousand people died who didnt have to die.”

“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. Im 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 arent the stories by way of which the greater tale of this planet will, in the end, be told.

You want to believe that theres one relationship in life thats beyond betrayal. A relationship thats beyond that kind of hurt. And there isnt.

It is the greatest truth of our age: Information is not knowledge.

I get in trouble when I say things like, Im attracted to violence. 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. Im just trying to understand where it came from.

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. Im 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 arent the stories by way of which the greater tale of this planet will, in the end, be told.”