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I don't take advances for my books.
Information is the hardest currency.
I don't sign contracts for my books.
Roots are nice, but a tree can’t run.
It's the family you choose that counts.
A free press doesn't mean it's not a tame press.
I think people should be consumers of journalism.
Even if sheep could talk, they'd never ask questions.
Stealing to eat ain’t criminal—stealing to be rich is.
I'm in pursuit of what cannot be achieved: perfection.
When you hunt predators, the best camouflage is weakness.
People are pushing against the fabric of society all the time.
Max Allan Collins blends fact and fiction like no other writer.
Family' is not just a biological word, it's an an operative one.
Victimizers of children are the enemies of any so-called society.
Children know the truth: love is not an emotion, love is behavior.
If love would die along with death, this life wouldn't be so hard.
The idea that you're not a writer until you're published is a lie.
If I ever stopped being angry, I couldn't write anymore. How could I?
I didn't start out angry. I started out a young man wanting adventure.
We don't protect our young, and we tolerate predators of our own species.
The more bullets flying, the less accurate each individual slug has to be.
People who don't have much get ugly about giving up the little they have left.
It isn’t much use writing slogans on a wall if you plan to total the building.
A dog is like a person—he needs a job and a family to be what he’s meant to be.
I write everything in Courier 12 because I write for publication, not pleasure.
Crime takes the pulse of a culture. It tells us the truth about us as a species.
Camouflage doesn't help when the other guy is willing to defoliate the whole jungle.
Journalism is what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change.
The worst place to be is in the middle. When elephants fight, the grass gets trampled.
Building a mechanical device for its appearance is like putting lace on a bowling ball.
No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist.
A trial is not a search for truth. It is a contest and, often, one that produces no winners.
I hate bullies. I hate them. I'm not good enough with words to describe how much I hate them.
Life is a fight, but not everyone’s a fighter. Otherwise, bullies would be an endangered species.
Two rules: You enter without breaking. And you remember that nobody misses what you don't take.
A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids.
The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape.
While early childhood experiences may impel, they do not compel. In the end, evil is a matter of choice.
In some neighborhoods, if you want to walk down the streets, you've got two choices - look down, or look hard.
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.
Fighting means you could lose. Bullying means you can't. A bully wants to beat somebody; he doesn't want to fight somebody.
The Humane Society of America thinks Michael Vick should have a dog. I think whoever's in charge there should have a lobotomy.
The Bowery station on the J line is what happens to a neighborhood once politicians realize the people who live there don't vote.
If a train is coming at you, closing your eyes won't save you ... but if you look right at it, you at least have a chance to jump.
Ours is a country where anything can be accomplished if enough people get angry... because, in America, we act on our collective anger.
I want to disabuse people of the idea that knowledge is power. Knowing how to get to Detroit is not the same thing as having the bus fare.
Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That's why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a journalist.
A moral society will not set standards for becoming a parent, but it will establish irreducible minimums for maintaining that sacred status.
From the very second that two people sat together around a fire in the forest, there was another human out there who felt better in the dark.