Quotes by Joseph O'Connor

“Im just very glad hes going to be off the street for a while because David Mair is a dangerous person. Since he was 14 years old, hes been out of prison 3 years total. Hes just got a really awful record. I was just really afraid that if he walked on everything here somebody else would be victimized.”

“Weve been separated for a long time and the kids have eaten all their little candy bars to count each week I was gone so were glad to be back together.”

“I think he probably could have done it without her.”

“It is a problem that has nothing to do with cleanliness. It has to do with a source bringing them in.”

“I am honored to have been chosen as the stations new general manager.”

Love and freedom are such hideous words. So many cruelties have been done in their name.

That each man is the sum of his choices is nothing less than the truth. And each, perhaps, is also something else.

...but as his father used to say when he had a few drinks taken, you couldnt expect bloody miracles when you were talking about God.

How the prisoner and the immigrant are treated by the government, how the poor are treated and those without influence: this is secretly how the government would like to treat us all.

Everything is in the way the material is composed.

We still tell each other that we are lucky to be alive, when our being alive has almost nothing to do with luck, but with geography, pigmentation, and international exchange rates.