Andrew Vachss Quotes

My life has been a series of emergencies.

One of the things is that in times of severe disorder, you can't worry about the dead, only the living.

I was shooting the third season of 'The Big C' and doing 'The Normal Heart' at the same time on Broadway, and I thought, 'I'll never do anything as difficult as this.'

Life is a long headache in a noisy street.

When the brothel burns down, even the pretty girls have to run out.

Everything in Haiti right now is a priority.

Part of my act is meant to shake you up. It looks like I'm being funny, but I'm reminding you of other things. Life is tough, darling. Life is hard. And we better laugh at everything; otherwise, we're going down the tube.

I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.

With three kids you are just trying to survive. You can't be fastidious.

If you're in the middle of the ocean with no flippers and no life preserver and you hear a helicopter, this is music. You have to adjust to your needs at the moment.

When people are dying, bureaucracy should be thrown out of the water.

Otherwise, my whole career has just been flinging myself at whatever is most overdue first and letting everything else stack up.

I am very busy and don't have a lot of down time, but I write my best songs in those situations. I enjoy my life the most when I have a bunch of things going on at the same time.

My life hasn't always been a disaster, it's just that when it has, it's been a spectacular disaster.

Necessity has its own rules

A man's mind will very generally refuse to make itself up until it be driven and compelled by emergency.

At this crucial time in our lives, when everything is so desperate, when every day is a matter of survival, I don't think you can help but be involved.

I think we live in a constant state of emergency.

When your house is burning down, you don't worry about the remodeling.

Necessity knows no law.

Birth and death were easy. It was life that was hard.

Sometimes that's all life is... One desperate act after another.

I know that homes burn and that you should think what to save before they start to. Not because, in the heat of it, everything looks as valuable as everything else. But, because nothing looks worth the bother, not even your life.

Instinct. When the house burns one forgets even lunch. Yes, but one eats it later in the ashes.