Caleb Carr

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

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.

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.  

The defenders of decent society and the disciples of degeneracy are often the same people.

It is never easier to understand the mind of a bomb-wielding anarchist than when standing amid a crush of those ladies and gentlemen who have the money and temerity to style themselves "New York Society.

Absolutely nothing brings out the killer instinct in the upper crust of New York Society like a charity function.